a. coordinates policy formation for the Division of Student Life;
b. coordinates and supervises the Student Life budgets, including the student communications budgets;
c. provides leadership in long-range planning;
d. coordinates with the assistance of Student Life department heads the employment of new personnel;
e. supervises and evaluates the performance of Student Life department heads and other direct reports;
f. serves as the official representative of the Division of Student Life at trustees' meetings, administrative retreats or other sessions;
g. advises and counsels students on any program relating to the students' personal welfare and individual difficulties;
h. meets regularly with student leaders to involve them in as well as to interpret and explain administrative decisions;
i. provides student leaders with information needed to strengthen their activities and organizations;
j. promotes programs for leadership training;
k. supervises the student conduct process when appropriate;
l. follows up student conduct cases and assists individuals in appropriate ways;
m. keeps student conduct records in confidential files;
n. oversees student conduct cases involving possible suspensions or expulsions from the University;
o. serves as liaison with administrative and faculty committees; (Examples: commencement, homecoming, etc.);
p. assists the administration of student withdrawals;
q. assists faculty members with special information (accidents, death in family) regarding students they teach;
r. provides information about students when requested by their instructors;
s. attempts to strengthen student activities by working to improve educational practices, creativity, originality and resourcefulness;
t. provides leadership in response to crisis situations;
u. coordinates the advising of student organizations;
v. provides leadership when needed for projects such as Junior-Senior Dance, Senior Banquet, and publishing of the Freshman Record;
w. coordinates ways to select students for nonacademic honors and awards;
x. controls student personnel records;
y. keeps policy on release of information up-to-date and provides for its enforcement;
z. enforces and monitors the impact of the Drug Free campuses act and University alcohol policy;
aa. coordinates research and assessment efforts of the Division of Student Life; and
bb. performs other duties as assigned by the President of the university in support of the goals and objectives of Furman.