{"id":2464,"date":"2025-06-13T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:11:53","slug":"interim-vice-president-for-student-affairs-and-dean-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/interim-vice-president-for-student-affairs-and-dean-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p>Dear Colleagues:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Dr. Danny Kelley as the Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, effective July 1, 2025.&nbsp; As you are aware, Dr. Khalilah Doss has tendered her resignation as Vice President and Dean of Students to assume a similar position at a university in California.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Kelley brings significant experience to the Student Affairs Division at our University.&nbsp; He has served since 2010 as Associate Dean of Students and Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at MTSU.&nbsp; He is currently responsible for the areas of Fraternity and Sorority Life, Student Organization and Services, Student Programming (SPARE), Student Government Association, June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students, and Intercultural Diversity Affairs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, prior to his tenure at our university, Dr. Kelley held various university-level positions at American University in Washington, DC, the University of Maryland at Baltimore, MD, and with the organization Phi Kappa Tau in Oxford, OH.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am confident that Dr. Kelley will serve effectively in this interim role as we pursue a national search for a permanent appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join me in welcoming him to this very important position.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney A. McPhee<br>President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues:&nbsp; I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Dr. Danny Kelley as the Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, effective July 1, 2025.&nbsp; As you are aware, Dr. Khalilah Doss has tendered her resignation as Vice President and Dean of Students to assume a similar position at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}