Student Affairs
VP Picked
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Moneta, associate vice president for campus services at the University
of Pennsylvania, is Duke’s new vice president for student affairs.
His selection follows a national search involving a hundred candidates.
Moneta succeeds Janet Smith Dickerson, who assumed a similar position
at Princeton University last July. James Clack, director of the university’s
Counseling and Psychological Services, has been interim vice president
since Dickerson’s departure.
The vice president for student affairs is the senior administrative
officer with responsibility for a broad range of student-life programs
and activities at Duke. Moneta’s background and experience in
managing residential life led to a decision to move responsibility
for housing on campus under the vice president for student affairs.
“Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, Provost Peter Lange,
and I agree that Larry’s extensive experience in managing administrative
areas, including student residential life and support services, make
this an opportune time to consolidate these programs to improve service
to our students and ensure that the significant investments we are
about to make in strengthening ties between the academic and residential
experiences are successful,” says President Nannerl O. Keohane.
The long-range plan calls for Duke to invest some $100 million in
residential, social, and programmatic enhancements over the next five
years.
As Penn’s associate vice president for campus services since
1997, Moneta was responsible for administrative support for the
university’s 24,000 graduate and undergraduate students, as well
as 10,000 faculty and staff, including housing services, campus dining,
conference and guest services, campus center operations, campus card
service, and university hotel operations. He coordinated Penn’s
ten-year, $300-million residence hall capital renewal plan and was
a leader in developing a comprehensive residential college system,
as well as restoring Penn’s historic student union. In addition,
Moneta managed the student affairs budget at Penn.
Moneta has been the University of Pennsylvania’s representative
to the Ivy League and as its academic eligibility officer for all
varsity athletes. In addition to his administrative responsibilities,
he has been an adjunct assistant professor in the university’s
graduate school of education, where he annually taught a course, “The
Administration of Student Life,” and served on numerous dissertation
committees.
At Penn, he served for five years as associate vice provost for university
life, and was responsible for supporting the academic mission of the
university through the integration of students’ academic, residential,
and extracurricular experiences. As associate vice provost, he supervised
offices responsible for fraternity and sorority affairs, counseling
and psychological services, student health, the judicial inquiry office,
drug and alcohol education, and the university’s gay, lesbian,
and bisexual community.
Before 1992, Moneta was associate director of housing services at
the University of Massachusetts, where he helped develop centers for
Latino, African-American, Native-American, and Asian students. He
earned his bachelor of science at the University of Massachusetts,
his master’s in education at Springfield College, and a doctorate
in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts.
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