Daniel Swinton, Vanderbilt University assistant dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity, has been elected president of the Association of Student Conduct Administration, an organization of about 1,700 student conduct professionals representing more than 700 colleges and universities around the country.
He will serve as president until February 2012 and as past-president the following year. Founded 25 years ago, ASCA is based at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
Among the ASCA’s membership are college and university professionals such as student conduct officers, residential education staff and senior student affairs officers. ASCA is the only national association specializing in student conduct administration for colleges and universities. Its mission is to support higher education professionals through sharing best practices and by providing educational materials and resources and professional development.
The association offers an intensive training academy for conduct professionals, a journal, white papers, a weekly law and policy report as well as an annual conference.
Swinton joined Vanderbilt in 2005 as assistant director of the Office of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity. He rose to associate director of the office in 2007 and to interim director and later director in 2008. In 2009, he was named an assistant dean of students in addition to his work as director of the student conduct office.
Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Swinton served as a law clerk for Judge Anthony Schofield in Utah’s Fourth District Court, a research/compliance clerk in Brigham Young University’s Financial Aid Office and a law clerk for the United States Attorney’s Office: District of Utah.
He graduated cum laude with university honors with a bachelor’s degree in history from Brigham Young University, holds a law degree, a doctor of jurisprudence, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU and earned a doctorate in higher education and leadership policy from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development. He is a member of the Tennessee State Bar.
For more information about ASCA, visit www.theasca.org.