UMW Hosts 41st Family Weekend
Searcy Selected for SACSA Leadership Position
During SACSA’s 64th Annual Conference in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 2 to 4, Dr. Doug Searcy was selected to lead SACSA’s non-conference programming. Searcy will be able to shape the organization’s emphases and direction on issues critical to the future of student affairs. The Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA) is a regional organization dedicated to providing professional development opportunities for practitioners, educators, and students engaged in the student affairs profession.
Searcy and Rettinger Present at SACSA Conference
Dr. Doug Searcy, vice president for Student Affairs, and Dr. David Rettinger, executive director of the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service, presented a program on UMW’s Center for Honor, Leadership and Service at the 64th Annual Conference of the Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA) in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 2 to 4.
The presentation focused on sharing strengths of the center program and its development of best practices that seek to raise the bar for industry standards in developing similar programs that create a seamless experience between curricular and co-curricular components of the University.
Searcy also facilitated a senior-level panel on campus collaboration as a tool to address student needs and support student learning, and served on a panel to discuss threat assessment and behavioral intervention teams and the models for implementing and successfully maintaining these teams that are now critical for supporting student success and persistence to graduation.
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Rettinger & Searcy Publish Research
Executive Director of the Center for Honor, Leadership, and Service and Associate Professor of Psychology David Rettinger and Vice President for Student Affairs Doug Searcy’s article “Student-led honor codes as a method for reducing university cheating” appears in volume 12 of the journal Economic and Environmental Studies. The article provides support for student-led honor systems through a case study of UMW.