Mission Statement and Organizational Goals
The purpose of the American Collegiate Retailing Association (ACRA) is to foster quality retail education at four-year college and graduate schools. It has important commitments to teaching of retailing, retail research, and administration of academic retail programs.
2008 Proposed ACRA Constitution Revisions
Download the Proposed ACRA Constitution Revisions (.doc)
2009 ACRA Winter Conference
in Conjunction with The National Retail Federation Convention
Details of the ACRA Winter Conference, held in conjunction with the NRF 2009 Convention (January 11-14, 2009) will be available shortly.
2008 ACRA Morris L. Mayer Dissertation Awards
2nd Annual ACRA Charrette
The 2nd Annual ACRA Charrette took place on Tuesday, March 25 to Saturday, March 29th, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario. Congratulations to the winning teams!View the 2008 Charrette Video Recap View the winners and their presentations The American Collegiate Retailing Association is pleased to announce that the University of Florida will host the 2009 ACRA Charrette. |
The Third Annual ACRA Undergraduate Student Retail Analysis Competition: Location Analysis
Students competed by selecting a new site for a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise store and developing a business plan to support their site selection.
ACRA Schools Survey
Our list of "ACRA Schools" and the programs they offer hasn't been
updated in many years. Jungkun Park of Purdue has created a short
survey that will enable us to update our materials. The survey will
take less than 5 minutes to complete.
The link is below. If you have any questions or comments regarding the
survey, please write to Jungkun Park. Thanks.
Donna Smith
ACRA President