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Record Group 081

Date Span: 1981-2000 
Extent: 7 File Folders

Organizational Sketch: At present, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Dothan Campus’s Office of Student and Community Services oversees several other offices on campus including Admissions and Records, Financial Aid, and University Events.  Most of this office’s history, however, is rooted in the former, separately accredited institution, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé State University at Dothan (TSUD).  In 1983, two years before TSUD was granted separate SACS accreditation, the Office of Student Affairs, as it was then called, operated independently of some of its future component offices, including Admissions and Records, Financial Aid, and Student Activities.  As it grew, it accumulated various other responsibilities, while adding Development onto its office title.  Special programs, one of these new responsibilities, acquired in 1989, eventually was of slightly greater importance to the future of the Office of Student Affairs and Development.  The Office of Special Programs became a coequal to its former parent office, and only after the death of Dr. Jack Sublette, Vice President of the Office of Student Affairs (and later, simply the Office of Student Affairs), was Special Programs effectively phased out as Dr. Barbara Alford assumed leadership of the newly consolidated Office of Student and Community Affairs.  In 1998, Dr. Alford was promoted to Executive Vice President of the University, and former University Relations Director Tony Whetstone led the newly named Office of Student Services.  It gained its present title, the Office of Student and Community Services, in 1999.  In 2001, Bob Willis assumed leadership of this office.  He presently holds those same responsibilities as Dean of Students. 

• ( - 1986) Office of Student Affairs:
• -1983 William T. Thornton, Dean
• 1983-1985 Nolan Williams, Director
• 1985-1986 Nolan Williams, Dean
• (1986 - 1994) Office of Student Affairs and Development:
• 1986-1994 Jack Sublette, Vice President
• (1994 - 1997) Office of Student Affairs:
• 1994-1997 Jack Sublette, Vice President
• (1997 - 1998) Office of Student and Community Affairs:
• 1997-1998 Barbara Alford, Vice President
• (1998 - 1999) Office of Student Services:
• 1998-1999 Tony Whetstone, Director
• (1999 - present) Office of Student and Community Services:
• 1999-2001Tony Whetstone, Director
• 2001 Bob Willis, Interim Director
• 2002-2004Bob Willis, Director
• 2004-present Bob Willis, Dean of Students

[Source:  TSUD Undergraduate/Graduate Bulletins, 1983-2005] 

Scope / Content:  Documents outreach and reporting activities of the office.  Contains departmental meeting minutes, planning documents, award plaques, banners, video, university issued publications for students and other reports made by the Office of Student and Community Services for general university reference.  Also contains school promotional packets, scholarship packets, advertising, and an ACHE Five-Year Plan.

Preferred Citation: Records of the Office of Student and Community Services, RG081.  Wiregrass Archives, ÎÞÂë¾ÞÈé Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL. 

Access/User Limits?: Open 

Proc Date: 2/11/2010 Processor: HMcD and Dsowell

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