• Recruited, managed, and retained team of competent professionals to oversee all facets of student life, including athletics, counseling services, house system, student organizations, Christian formation, leadership development, discipline, and housing.• Served on president’s cabinet and executive committee to collaboratively set organizational direction; provided weekly departmental reports; delivered weekly devotional for cabinet.• Responsible for all parent programming, including monthly parents newsletter and annual parents weekend; served as liaison between parents advisory council and college administration; partnered with parents to proactively address student concerns. • Served on emergency operations team; implemented safety protocols; coordinated emergency assistance for students in crisis.• Set and managed annual department budget.• Assisted with admissions efforts; served on strategic enrollment committee to shape admissions strategy; spoke to groups of prospective students and parents; shaped strategy to bolster student-athlete recruitment.

• Led student development team in upgrading residence life, house system, counseling services, International Ventures, student government, student organizations, and student leadership development.• Authored student development philosophy documents including History of The King's College House System, Why the Honor System, A Theology of Honor, and Before You Sign the Honor Code.• Designed and implemented bi-annual “honor survey” to gauge student understanding and buy-in of honor system; Crafted curriculum to educate student body about honor, resulting in 50+% increase in student buy-in of honor system.• Spearheaded relocation of student housing from Midtown Manhattan to higher quality housing in Financial District, achieving over $300,000 in annual savings.• Maintained dean’s blog; recognized among “Top 10 Blogs by University Deans” by OnlineColleges.com.• Mentored student body president, house executive teams, and student organization leaders; coached faculty and staff house advisors toward greater effectiveness in their roles.• Designed and facilitated “Difficult Discussion Series” to create space for students to engage in open, frank dialog around difficult topics, including gender identity, sexuality, and race relations. • Led “Presidents Commission on Multi-Ethnicity” taskforce to gauge minority student experience, resulting in detailed findings report and proposals to improve campus climate; worked through president’s cabinet to implement changes, resulting in 20% increase in minority population and increased retention; worked with faculty and staff to craft Biblical-Theological Commitment to Unity in Diversity.

• Set yearly department goals in collaboration with dean of students.• Built collaborative alliances with professors to enhance core programs, including house system, International Ventures, and disciplinary procedures.• Coached faculty and staff toward greater effectiveness as house advisors and mentors.• Launched King’s honor system to empower students as morally responsible agents and inculcate virtue; revamped jurisprudence processes to create student-driven culture of accountability.

• Led merger of student government with the house system.• Designed and launched International Ventures, an innovative strategy for student engagement abroad, resulting in 400+ students participating in idea-centered forums, debates and discussions at universities in Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Israel, Uganda, Brazil, India, South Africa and the Caribbean; worked and/or traveled in 30+ countries.• Equipped students to raise over $1,000,000 toward International Ventures.

Designed and taught academic courses, including:• International Ventures: Curriculum to prepare participants for cross-cultural engagement; components included country-specific history, politics, economics, cross-cultural communication, and emergency preparedness.• Inductive Bible Study Methods: Core course focused on interpretive methodology for various genres of Biblical literature.• Introduction to New Testament Biblical Literature: Core course designed to familiarize students with the New Testament corpus.• College Life Skills: Gap education course designed to help non-matriculated students acquire skills necessary for success in college.

• Conceptualized, designed, and built King’s house system, a strategy for holistically developing students, that would become a hallmark of the King’s student experience.• Built student life department from ground up; hired and managed team of eight student development professionals.• Researched leadership models at 29 peer institutions; engineered student leadership development program, resulting in 900+ students being equipped for campus leadership.• Created city engagement strategy to mobilize students for service in NYC; built partnerships with NYC organizations to provide venues for students to engage urban youth, homeless, immigrants, and abused women.

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