#Naspatech:
Student Affairs Technology Conference

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Friday Morning Keynote

Perspectives on Student Affairs and Technology

Our roles as student affairs professionals are complex. However, current and new technologies present unique challenges and exciting opportunities for our work with students and on campus. Hear from a student affairs association executive, a dean of students, and a graduate faculty member on how technology is changing our profession. This session will examine incorporating technology into student affairs divisions, building campus communities online, and identifying and measuring successful use of technology for student learning in and outside the classroom.

Speakers

Kenneth Elmore, JD, Dean of Students, Boston University

Kenneth Elmore, Dean of Students at Boston University since 2003 (Coordinates university efforts to provide a safe environment, where students can find their way, within a vibrant community. Responds to student concerns; helps students solve their problems; and, helps students build communities).

Secret Origins: Kenn Elmore likes to rock the boat. He looks for improvisation in the conventional and inspiration in the ordinary. Kenn loves keeping things on the cutting edge while still coating everything with spoonfuls of sugar.

Temperamentally, he's an artist, who went to school to study psychology, education, and law. In his development as an educator and as a human being, and in the search for his hopes and dreams, Kenn has been encouraged, supported, nurtured, and taught by people of all religions, races, and cultures. He was educated in Brooklyn and the City; by folks in rural South Carolina; and, within the Pomfret, Brown, Boston University, and New England Law communities. Kenn's teachers have been Civil Rights, urban decay, Booker T and the MG's, the digital age, poor folks, Ellison, DJs and B-Boy creators, storytelling, Morrison, Root medicine, and the dozens.

Kenn loves that which is playful, stylish, articulate, highly-referenced, coded, transcendent, lyrical, musical, pop, and political. In his current role, as Dean of Students at Boston University, Kenn works with the students and staff in that community to plunge young people into an environment full of color, music, and conversation. He tries to play his part to keep Boston, Boston University, and educational environments as places for people to come to together, find passion, write poetry, and find love. He's the one your parents cautioned you about but with whom you loved to hang out.

Dr. Kevin Kruger, Associate Executive Director, NASPA

Kevin is currently the Associate Executive Director of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), the leading national association for college and university student affairs administrators, where he serves as the chief operating and financial officer for the association. Prior to NASPA, Kevin worked for fifteen years at the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. During his tenure at the University of Maryland he worked in orientation, student activities, leadership development, admissions and with the Vice President for Student Affairs office. Kevin has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Student Development in Higher Education program at Trinity College in Washington, DC. Kevin received both his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland College Park.

Kevin has published and presented nationally on leadership development, using technology in student affairs administration, international education and is a regular lecturer on technology in student affairs, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, assessment and student learning. He is the editor of two Jossey-Bass publications, Technology Innovations in Student Services and Using Technology to Promote Student Learning. He also has chapters in The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration; Understanding the Role of Academic and Student Affairs Collaboration in Creating a Successful Learning Environment; Beyond Borders: How International Developments are Changing Student Affairs Practice; and Involving Commuter Students in Learning.

Dr. Reynol Junco, Professor, Department of Academic Development and Counseling, Lock Haven University 

Dr. Rey Junco conducts research on how social media and other technologies (such as Facebook, Instant Messaging, Blogs, Twitter, and Cell Phones) impact the psychosocial development of college students.

Dr. Junco is particularly interested in how technology can be used to enhance student academic success and engagement.

Dr. Junco's books include Connecting to the Net.Generation: What higher education professionals need to know about today's students and Using emerging technologies to help engage students. Rey has recently published papers on: the academic effects of multitasking, the digital divide in cell phone ownership and use, using social media to promote civil discourse on college campuses, and how Twitter can be used for academic purposes in order to increase student engagement and improve grades.