Opening Keynote: Susan Komives
Topic: Helping our Institutions Shine!
Quality student services programs bring intentional practices that enrich student learning and development. Promoting each student's success helps our institutions shine! Dr. Komives will explore strategies to work toward quality student service work in today challenging times.
Susan Komives
Professor, Counseling and Personnel Services - University of Maryland
Susan R. Komives is Professor in the College Student Development graduate program at the University of Maryland. She is president of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (www.cas.edu) – a 37 association-member consortium advancing standards of practice and self-assessment in higher education. She is former President of the American College Personnel Association and former Vice President for Student Development at Stephens College and the University of Tampa.
She is co-editor of two editions of Student Services (Jossey-Bass 1996, 2003), coauthor of two editions of Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make A Difference (Jossey-Bass 1998, 2007), Management And Leadership Issues for a New Century (Jossey-Bass 2000), and Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development (Jossey-Bass; 2009). She is co-editor of the Handbook of Student Leadership Programs (National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs, 2006). She was a member of the NASPA/ACPA team that wrote Learning Reconsidered and Learning Reconsidered2 as well as the ensemble that developed the Social Change Model of Leadership Development.
She is co-founder and Research and Publications editor for the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs and a Senior Scholar with the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. Susan and her research team have published their grounded theory on Leadership Identity Development. She is co-PI of the Multi-institutional Study of Leadership (MSL), a 104 campus study of college student leadership outcomes and campus practices that contribute to those outcomes with over 115,000 respondents (www.leadershipstudy.net).
Komives is the Spring 2006 recipient of both the NASPA Contribution of Scholarship and Literature Award and the ACPA Contribution to Knowledge Award. In 2006, she was also honored with the Outstanding Mentoring Award from the ACPA Committee for Graduate Students and New Professionals and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Education at the University of Maryland. She has been honored as a NASPA "Pillar of the Profession" and was the 2004 recipient of the NASPA Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member; and by ACPA with the Esther Lloyd Jones Professional Service award, is a Senior Scholar Diplomate, and as an ACPA Diamond honoree.
She and her artist husband, Ralph, live in Bowie, Maryland. They are parents to Rachel, a high school English teacher living near Boulder, Colorado, who is the mother of their granddaughters, Mary (10) and Molly (8). Son Jeffrey is an aerospace engineer and Captain in the USAF.