Director, Community Standards & Education - Campus Life

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Description

The Director of Community Standards & Education plays a significant role for the Emory University community by efficiently and professionally leading the university's conduct system for undergraduate students and student groups.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES:

• Responsible for evaluating conduct reports, stewarding the medical amnesty protocol, proactively engaging the community in conflict resolution capacity and skill-building, serving as a case administrator, and providing training and guidance on student conduct issues. Also responsible for ensuring the office's practices, protocols, and policies are compliant with relevant regulations and laws, aiding in the evaluation of behavior that rises to the level of a threat to the community or enterprise, and mitigating institutional risk with care and consideration.
• Supervises a team of full-time staff members, including an associate director for student conduct, assistant director, student conduct administrator(s), graduate intern(s), and administrative and student support staff, and manages students, faculty, and staff volunteers who serve as conduct officers or on conduct boards.
• Reporting to the Associate Dean of Students, the Director works to ensure a restorative, care-centered, fair, and just educational conduct process for all undergraduate students and student groups.
• Their primary focus is to support the institution's mission to foster in each student a love of learning, commitment to fair and honorable conduct, and respect for the safety and welfare of others. Provides guidance and support to students to promote an environment where students flourish which requires community members acting with integrity, respect for differences, honesty, and the highest ethical principles in service to the greater good.
• Strategically leads the Office of Community Standards & Education, sets office priorities, and supervises five (5) full-time staff members to manage the timely resolution of all individual student and student group conduct cases. Triages and processes student conduct cases, monitors for timely case resolution, audits sanction completion, stewards the medical amnesty protocol, and processes student conduct records requests.
• Works closely with the Office of General Counsel, the Associate Dean of Students, Associate Vice President/Dean of Students, the Senior Vice President for Campus Life, Department of Title IX, Department for Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, Emory Police Department, and other campus partners (i.e., Office of Residence, Sorority, & Fraternity Life [ORSFL]; Student Involvement Leadership, and Transitions; the Office for Open Expression Programs; etc.) to evaluate and update the Undergraduate Code of Student Conduct, Student Group Accountability Framework, and related policies as needed to remain compliant with changing proven practices, regulations, and laws. 
• Convenes campus conduct partners from the nine (9) colleges and schools to guide, support, coach, and align, where appropriate, the practice of student conduct at the institution.
• Collaborates with the Campus Life Technology Services to ensure the maintenance of the student conduct database (Advocate) by performing regular audits and updates. - Advises individual students and their parents/caregivers and/or advisors regarding university policies and students' rights and responsibilities.
• Manages the review and investigations of alleged individual and/or student group misconduct, including crafting quality investigative reports. 
• Provides ongoing outreach and education for constituencies (including campus conduct partners, students, faculty, staff, parents, and community members) involving student conduct matters, alternate conflict resolution programming, and alternatives to substance abuse and healthy decision making. 
• Provides leadership for, mentors, directs, and evaluates the staff of Community Standards & Education. 
• Serves as a conduct administrator responsible for reviewing and resolving individual student and student group conduct matters with an emphasis on an ability to resolve cases in a fast-paced environment. 
• Facilitates the Alternative Conflict Resolution (ACR) process designed to assist students and student groups in resolving conflict. 
• Develops, reviews, revises, and administers the training processes for all those associated with administration of cases, including ORSFL staff conduct administrators, and Conduct Council that is comprised of faculty, staff, and student volunteers.