Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students

Duties & Responsibilities Provides executive leadership for the Counseling Center, University Health Center, Student Disability Support Services, Student Support and Outreach Services, Food Resource Center, and Student Rights and Responsibilities, ensuring that services are student-centered, data-informed, and aligned with divisional and institutional priorities. Leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of a comprehensive campus-wide student wellbeing strategy - developed through cross-institutional partnerships and aligned with institutional priorities - that integrates health promotion, mental health, accessibility, basic needs support, prevention, and student success initiatives. Oversees the University's student support and crisis response systems, including case management, CARE Team operations, behavioral intervention, referral networks, and on‑call emergency response, ensuring timely, proactive, and effective coordinated responses to students of concern, behavioral incidents, mental health crises, and critical campus safety matters. Provides leadership for student conduct, accessibility, threat assessment, campus safety collaboration, and student‑facing policy development, ensuring that policies, practices, and responses are educationally grounded, procedurally sound, informed by applicable laws, regulations, university policies, and professional standards, and support a fair, accessible, and student-centered experience. Advances a culture of prevention, early intervention, and coordinated care by ensuring that student support systems are proactive, responsive, integrated, and designed to identify and address emerging student needs before they become barriers to success. Maintains a visible and accessible presence within the campus community, develops meaningful relationships with students, families, faculty, staff, and campus partners, and ensures that student perspectives, needs, and emerging concerns inform divisional priorities, services, and institutional decision-making. Serves as one of the Division's principal executive leaders and a member of the senior leadership team, contributing to divisional strategy, organizational effectiveness, student success initiatives, and institutional planning, and represents the Vice President for Student Affairs as assigned. Maintains active engagement in the student affairs profession through professional associations, conferences, scholarship, and leadership activities that inform institutional practice, contribute to the advancement of the profession, and elevate the visibility of Morgan State University and its work in student success and wellbeing. Builds and sustains collaborative partnerships across Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, University Police, Facilities, and community partners to advance student success and wellbeing, strengthen coordinated systems of care and support, and advocate for student needs in university planning and decision-making. Uses assessment, data analytics, evidence-based practices, and continuous improvement strategies to evaluate effectiveness, identify emerging trends, inform decision-making, and advance institutional goals related to student success, retention, persistence, and completion. Recruits, supervises, and develops directors and department leaders across all assigned units, fostering a culture of care, innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement while providing oversight of personnel, budgets, planning, and organizational development across the portfolio. #J-18808-Ljbffr