Julie Payne-Kirchmeier to become vice president for student success for Indiana University system

Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, vice chairman for Pupil Affairs, will conclude her time at Northwestern this summer season to turn into vice chairman for pupil success for the complete Indiana College system, President Morton Schapiro introduced immediately. Payne-Kirchmeier’s appointment with the Indiana College system will start Aug. 1.

A nationwide chief in pupil affairs administration, Payne-Kirchmeier has been one of many College’s main voices in assist of range, fairness and social justice. 

Since she arrived at Northwestern in 2012, she has served in a variety of roles inside Pupil Affairs, starting as assistant vice chairman for pupil auxiliary companies, affiliate vice chairman and chief of workers, after which interim vice chairman. She was appointed vice chairman in 2020 after a nationwide search.

In 2021, she was board chair of the Nationwide Affiliation of Pupil Personnel Directors (NASPA), the affiliation for pupil affairs directors in increased schooling.

“Julie has had a rare impression on Northwestern in her 10 years with the College,” Schapiro stated. “She has been a compassionate advocate for our college students and has led a proficient staff of pupil affairs professionals who prioritize college students’ well-being and expertise at Northwestern. She additionally has served as a foremost chief in her area as NASPA board chair. It has been a pleasure to work with a colleague of such excessive character and unimaginable ardour for her work.”

As vice chairman for Pupil Affairs, she has been liable for the management, technique and administration of the division, which incorporates housing, eating, finance, human sources, counseling, conduct, well being companies, campus life, fraternity and sorority life, campus inclusion and group, profession development, Norris College Heart, expertise, advertising and marketing, communications, evaluation and long-range planning.

“It has been such a pleasure to be a part of the Northwestern household for greater than a decade, and I’m pleased with all of the division has achieved on behalf of our college students and their experiences,” Payne-Kirchmeier stated. “Whereas it’s terribly arduous to depart a spot I like, I’m excited in regards to the potential at Indiana College and of getting an impression on pupil success throughout a big college system. I’ll carry my Northwestern household in my coronary heart at all times.”

She has made a direct impression on the coed expertise all through her time at Northwestern. Below her management, pupil areas had been constructed and renovated, together with the bottom ground of the Norris College Heart, a number of buildings in campus housing, in addition to cultural areas, equivalent to The Black Home, the present Multicultural Heart refresh and the forthcoming renovation of area for Pupil Enrichment Companies. 

She has served on College committees for human sources, finances, change administration, emergency planning and menace evaluation and coverage evaluation. She is also an adjunct college member within the Grasp of Science in Larger Schooling program within the College of Schooling and Social Coverage.

An announcement relating to plans for an interim vice chairman for Pupil Affairs, in addition to the seek for a brand new vice chairman, is forthcoming, Schapiro stated.