Hintz Receives Annual Award from NASPA
Jim Hintz, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success, Inclusion & Belonging (SSIB), receives AVP/Senior-Level Student Affairs Professional Award

Student Affairs

Each year, NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, recognizes individuals who are doing outstanding work in the student affairs profession. Dr. Jim Hintz, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success, Inclusion & Belonging was selected as the recipient of the 2023 AVP/Senior-Level Student Affairs Professional Award.

This award honors a student affairs professional at the AVP or senior-level whose outstanding commitment to the profession includes development of programs that address the needs of students, creation of a campus environment that promotes student learning and development, and support of and active engagement in NASPA. This is the highest honor NASPA bestows on an AVP/Senior-Level professional.

Dr. Jim Hintz serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success, Inclusion, & Belonging. He is responsible for developing strategies to enhance student success and engagement by leveraging and aligning curricular and co-curricular student experiences.  He co-chairs the Chancellor’s Committee to Support Homecoming and serves on the Student Success Initiative steering committee. 

Prior to Illinois, Dr. Hintz served as the Roger C. Stewart Director of the Leadership & Professional Development Initiative (LPDI) at Purdue University. He was responsible for championing a campus-wide strategy for student leadership development that prepared more students for career-oriented growth, by helping them translate their experiences into better job placement and advancement opportunities. Dr. Hintz has served as Assistant to the Vice Provost, Interim Dean of Students and Associate Dean of Students for Student Activities and Organizations at Purdue University. Preceding Purdue University, he worked at the University of Connecticut as the inaugural Director of Off-Campus Student Services and Ohio University as the Assistant Director of Campus Life for Off-Campus and Community Services.

A native of Norwalk, Ohio, Dr. Hintz earned his Ph.D. in higher education administration from Indiana State University and both a M.Ed. in college student personnel and a B.S.S. in social and managerial science from Ohio University.

Hintz and the other Annual Award recipients will be honored in April as part of the 2023 NASPA Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

NASPA is the leading association for the advancement, health, and sustainability of the student affairs profession. Our work provides high-quality professional development, advocacy, and research for 15,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries, and 8 U.S. territories.

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