Claflin to head new Center for Student Excellence
Contact: Rene Abadie
7/14/06
HAMMOND – Vickie J. Claflin has been appointed director of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Center for Student Excellence, a university project designed to coordinate programs focused on enhancing student success.
Formerly the director of research, planning and development for the Catholic Schools Office of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC, for the past three years, Claflin has considerable experience in developing, supervising and conducting student counseling and advising programs at the university level.
“We are very fortunate to add the services of someone with the extensive academic background and hands-on experience in academic counseling that Dr. Claflin brings to us,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs John Crain. “She will play an integral role in developing a new and exciting program at Southeastern that’s intended to assist all our students enhance their academic performance.”
The new program will provide Southeastern students with a stronger academic advising program that coordinates with mentoring by faculty. The Center for Student Excellence will be a one-stop resource for students with the Career and Academic Planning (CAP) Center, Student Enhanced Services, Student Support Services, and Trio Dissemination Partnership Program all housed under one roof.
“The first year of college is so important to most students’ future success, but it’s also a time when they need to overcome a natural sense of insecurity that they feel coming from high school and confronting the freedom of college life,” Claflin said. “The center will provide a comfort zone where students can receive guidance and assistance with any of the problems they face.”
A native of Metairie, Claflin served as assistant director of the Gemstone Honors Program at the University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research from 1998 to 2003. There she directed student activities and administered a premier university-wide honors team research program and coordinated the efforts of faculty mentors.
She served as director of Student Support Services at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville from 1991 to 1998 and held counseling and academic coordinator positions at Louisiana State University from 1987 to 1991.
Claflin received her undergraduate degree in advertising graphics and master’s degree in counseling at LSU. She earned her doctor of education degree in the area of curriculum and instruction from the University of Arkansas. Claflin also served as a visiting international lecturer and completed post-doctoral research at the University of Nottingham in England.
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