Senior Student Conduct Professionals
The Senior Student Conduct Professionals track is designed for practitioners who wish to focus on the complex issues and topics germane to leadership of student conduct work. This track is appropriate for directors and other seasoned conduct and adjacent professionals, including deans of students and senior student affairs officers (e.g., Assistant/Associate/Vice President for Student Affairs) with student conduct in their portfolio.
As a result of participating in the Senior Student Conduct Professionals track, participants will (including but not be limited to):
- Understand the knowledge and skills essential to senior leadership of student conduct, including hiring, training, and supervision of staff.
- Learn strategies for communicating to and about student conduct matters to diverse constituencies, including institution’s senior leadership teams, board of trustees, and the general public.
- Develop approaches to supervision of professionals doing conduct and conduct-adjacent work, both from a direct and dotted line hierarchy.
- Develop strategies to manage cases that cross into behavioral threat, involuntary withdrawal/leave, and care realms.
- Discuss emerging trends and topics in student conduct relevant to participant needs.
- Consider how to address issues related to expressive freedoms and campus protests.
- Apply emerging and advanced law and policy to student conduct policies and procedures.
- Develop supportive plans and strategies for when student behavior concerns- or decisions about student behavior- are scrutinized publicly.