Deans of Student Affairs

Campus Deans

Deans of Student Affairs at ACC are responsible for providing leadership, organization, and supervision of Student Support Services departments and programs: assessment, college-readiness, academic advising, success coaching, and community outreach. They are also responsible for administering college policies and procedures regarding student’s rights and responsibilities and work collaboratively with instructional deans, faculty, and academic support personnel to achieve student access and success. They are integral members of our Campus Assessment Response Evaluation and Support (CARES) Team.

Deans by Campus

Executive Deans

Regional Executive Deans provide leadership and supervision of campus Dean leadership in a designated region (central, north or south) of the Austin Community College (ACC) District. These positions are key to ACC’s guided pathways and enable the college to provide student support services that are holistic, proactive, and focused.

The Executive Dean of District Clinical Services provides leadership and management of counseling services using a Guided Pathways approach. This includes developing Austin Community College (ACC) behavioral intervention teams known as Campus Assessment Response Evaluation and Support (CARES), establishing counseling services that support the psychosocial needs of students, and implementing regulatory and compliance programs to include, but not limited to, the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA), Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA), Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE), Suicide Prevention, and Domestic/Dating/Sexual Violence programming.

Executive Deans

Mental Health Counseling

The Dean of Counseling provides oversight for all leadership, management, supervision, and operations for the regional clinical counseling teams assigned to one of three regions under the Student Support Services department.  The Dean is responsible for representing the regional counseling services as a participant member of the assigned region’s behavioral intervention team (ACC CARES). The Dean leads compliance programming activities for the district and have oversight responsibility for the assigned region’s compliance programming in areas that include, but are not limited to, the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA), Title IX Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA), Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE) | Clery Act, Suicide Prevention and Domestic/Dating/Sexual Violence programming.

Regional Deans, Mental Health Counseling