Student Personnel Administrators

Student personnel administrators include a variety of professionals, all centered on service to students: recruitment officers, admissions directors, financial aid officers, counseling staff, career services staff, housing staff, registrars, and deans of students, among others. These specialists benefit from sharing best practices and peer networking through their participation in the Student Personnel Administrators' Network (SPAN). Engage ATS (an interactive online community for those who serve at ATS member schools), annual conferences, webinars, and other resources cover topics such as administrative structures in various institutional settings, vocational identity, spiritual formation, seminary community, and position nomenclature.

2025 Student Personnel Administrators' Network Conference
Belonging across Modalities: Building Community with Communications, Technology, and AI

We are excited about the 2025 SPAN Conference and we want you to be part of it! What have you been learning lately? What new strategies or processes have you been developing? What questions do you have or what discoveries have you made that you’d like to discuss with the group? Do you have a case study that you’d like to present to a group of your peers for discussion? The DIAP Steering Committee invites you to submit a workshop or roundtable proposal for a session focused on any aspect of this year’s conference theme, Belonging across Modalities: Building Community with Communications, Technology, and AI, by Wednesday, November 27, 2024.

Here are several professional organizations ATS student personnel administrators have found useful:

Webinars

ATS Admissions Peer Networking Conversation (June 2023)

ATS Admissions Peer Networking Conversation (April 2023)

ATS Admissions Peer Networking Conversation (February 2023)

All Hands on Deck: Creating an Enrollment Management Culture at Your Institution (October 2022)

Saren Williams

412-788-6505, ext. 250
williams@ats.edu

Saren Williams joined the ATS staff in 2022 as program assistant for leadership development. She supports the ongoing and expanding work of the learning opportunities and resources ATS provides to those who serve at ATS member schools.

Williams most recently worked at Hickory Run Campground in Denver, Pennsylvania, and as a family counselor at Sky Ranch Horn Creek in Westcliffe, Colorado, organizing weekly events, family activities, and Bible studies. She received a bachelor of arts degree in biblical and religious studies with a minor in classical studies from Grove City College.