Through various virtual, on-demand, and in-person programs, AFA seeks to strengthen its ties to Senior Student Affairs Officers and equip them with the resources they need to better support their fraternity/sorority life teams and build stronger communities.  Through dedicated programming for Senior Student Affairs Officers (SSAOs), AFA is able to work toward its vision that every single senior student affairs officer who leads sorority and fraternity communities is prepared with a working knowledge to:

• Leverage fraternity and sorority students and alumni to accomplish divisional and institutional goals;
• Understand and develop the human resources necessary to effectively support the fraternity and sorority experience; and
• Advocate for the growth of the fraternity and sorority experience on their campuses.

Programming for SSAOs is funded through the generous support of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fund for Senior Student Affairs Officer Development with the AFA Foundation.

The SSAO Convening at the AFA Annual Meeting serves as a catalyst for engagement, resource development, and information sharing between senior student affairs officers and leaders of AFA.

Created in collaboration with the Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research, the ‘AVPs Intensive’ is a series of on-demand programs designed to enhance the capacity of Assistant and Associate Vice Presidents to successfully build strategy and support for their fraternity/sorority communities. The series is structured, through four separate courses, to support those student affairs divisional leaders charged with providing strategic leadership to fraternity/sorority programs, looking to build coalitions that actively include fraternities and sororities on campus, and engaging in strategic harm prevention efforts with fraternities and sororities.

Creating a healthy and thriving sorority and fraternity community increasingly requires the strategic investment of multiple key campus partners, and student affairs leaders are most uniquely positioned to provide strategic support to this very complex and distinct functional area. During this session at the 2025 NASPA AVP Symposium, presenters framed and contextualized what strong sorority and fraternity professional work should look like, discussed how to engage from their unique organizational level, and shared ways to leverage support from fraternity and sorority life students and alumni to advance institutional goals.

Questions? If you have questions, please contact Jason Bergeron, AFA Executive Director.

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AFA’s Senior Student Affairs Officers (SSAOs) Advisory Committee (SSAO AC) brings together SSAOs dedicated to amplifying fraternities and sororities to help elevate AFA’s mission and initiatives to the attention of university leadership and provide insight into how AFA can better serve as a resource to university leadership in their strategic guidance of student experiences that include FSL. The Advisory Committee is charged with Advocacy and Visibility for AFA programs and services, Strategic Alignment with AFA’s work in higher education, and Feedback and Recommendations for AFA that identify opportunities for innovation.

Committee Membership:

• Dr. Kevin W. Bailey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Chair
• Dr. Cynthia Hernandez, Texas State University
• Dr. D’Andra Mull, University of Colorado Boulder
• Dr. William E. Hudson, Jr., Florida A&M University
• Dr. Dwayne Todd, Ohio Wesleyan University
• Dr. Jeanine Ward-Roof, Ferris State University