Advisory Services Reviewers

Established, senior-level student affairs and higher education leaders

Reviewers expertly guide the inquiry process through examining campus background materials, leading interviews and meetings, acting as trusted advisors to senior institutional leadership, and serving as primary contributors to data-informed and experience-rich analyses and recommendations.

Reviewers bring significant student affairs senior leadership experience and/or subject matter expertise. They must have at least ten years of senior-level experience, with minimum or comparable service as an associate/assistant vice president, dean, or above.

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You must be a current NASPA member to serve as a reviewer. Submission of an application does not guarantee that you will be engaged in a review project.

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Background

For years, NASPA has provided guidance and resources on the professional competencies and skills needed to be a successful student affairs practitioner. Despite groundbreaking work in this area, little has been generated to guide and support, in a comprehensive manner, divisions of student affairs and services.

Similarly, student affairs standards for functional units have been developed and refined over several decades by CAS (Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education.) While immensely valuable, these standards have emphasized specific program and service enhancements but have not established a framework for effective and high-quality student affairs and services divisions.

Recognizing the need for such a framework, the NASPA Board Chair called for a review process for divisions of student affairs and services. The charge for providing perspectives, insights, and recommendations on key questions related to this review process—which is reflected in NASPA’s strategic plans for 2011-2014 and 2015-2018—was issued to a NASPA Board-appointed Task Force. The Task Force, chaired by Rhode Island College President Frank Sánchez, and composed of senior student affairs officers, first convened in February 2015 and worked in collaboration with NASPA leadership and staff to develop the Advisory Services review framework. NASPA Advisory Services then launched in December 2016.

NASPA Advisory Services Steering Committee

  • Sandy Olson-Loy
    Chair
    Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs University of Minnesota, Morris
  • Ahmed Samaha
    Vice Chancellor of Student Engagement and Belonging University of South Carolina-Aiken
  • Patty Alvarez
    Vice President of Student Affairs University of Maryland Baltimore
  • Lisa Cooper Wilkins
    Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs City College of San Francisco
  • Susan Davies
    Vice President for Enrollment & Student Affairs Augusta University
  • William Franklin
    Vice President for Student Affairs CSU Dominguez Hills
  • Eugene Zdziarski
    Vice President for Student Affairs DePaul University
  • Frank Sánchez
    Founding Task Force Chair
    President (former) Rhode Island College

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