201.1 Vice President for Student Services

201.1 Vice President for Student Services

A. Background

A Furman education includes social, physical, cultural, and spiritual growth as well as intellectual development. The Office of Student Services provides a variety of services to help students grow.

B. Policy

Under the supervision of the President of the University, the Vice President for Student Services has general responsibility for creating, maintaining, and evaluating services and programs for the university community including administrative, career services, health services, housing, multi-cultural affairs, recreational sports, student activities, and testing.

C. Guidelines

1.The Vice President for Student Services:

• coordinates policy formation for the Division of Student Services;
• coordinates and supervises the Student Services budgets, including the student communications' budgets;
• provides leadership in long-range planning;
• coordinates with the assistance of Student Services department heads the employment of new personnel;
• supervises through Student Services department heads total program coordination;
• supervises and evaluates the performance of immediate staff and Student Services department heads;
• serves as the official representative of the Division of Student Services at trustees' meetings, administrative retreats or other sessions;
• represents the Division of Student Services in all official contacts with the university faculty and administration;
• advises and counsels students on any program relating to the students' personal welfare and individual difficulties;
• meets regularly with student leaders to involve them in and to interpret and explain administrative decisions;
• provides student leaders with information needed to strengthen their activities and organizations;
• promotes programs for leadership training;
• supervises the adjudication of disciplinary cases when appropriate;
• follows up discipline cases and assists individuals in appropriate ways;
• keeps discipline records in confidential file;
• adjudicates the disciplinary cases involving possible suspensions or expulsions from the University;
• serves as liaison with administrative and faculty committees; (Examples: commencement, homecoming, etc.);
• serves on committees;
• supervises the administration of student withdrawals through a comprehensive exit interview;
• assists faculty members with special information (accidents, death in family) regarding students they teach;
• secures information about their students when requested;
• writes recommendations and completes forms for students who transfer, go to graduate school, or seek employment;
• attempts to strengthen student activities by working to improve educational practices, creativity, originality and resourcefulness;
• provides assistance in response to tragedies, hysteria and other forms of crisis situations;
• coordinates the advising of IFC, FPC, and such agencies of Student Government as the four classes, AFS Council and others;
• provides leadership when needed for traditional projects such as Junior-Senior, Senior Banquet, and publishing of the Freshman Register;
• coordinates ways to select students for nonacademic honors and awards (Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, President's Award, American Legion);
• controls student personnel records;
• keeps present policy on release of information up-to-date and enforced;
• coordinates research efforts of the Division of Student Services; and
• performs other duties as assigned by the President of the university in support of the goals and objectives of Furman.

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