Shorter Adds 2 New Staff Members To Office Of Student Affairs
Shorter College announces the addition of two new staff members to its Office of Student Affairs.
Revonda Hayes has been selected to serve as the college’s director of campus safety. Hayes is responsible for implementing a range of safety and security programs at the college, which include training of all campus safety staff and executing emergency plans as necessary. Hayes is also responsible for creating and developing policies and procedures that will ensure a safe environment conducive to learning, working and living on campus.
“We are pleased to have Revonda as our director of campus safety,” said Dr. Debra Faust, vice president for student affairs at Shorter. “Besides being a certified police officer, she has expertise in emergency and crisis planning. She will be evaluating and updating Shorter College’s emergency plans and conducting seminars and workshops, so that the Shorter community can react in the most timely and appropriate manner if the occasion ever arises.”
Hayes, a resident of Dallas, is graduate of Louisiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Most recently, she worked as a training and exercise coordinator for Cobb and Douglas Public Health and as detective lieutenant for Southern Polytechnic State University Police Department.
Shorter College also welcomes Joshua Arnold as its director of residence life and student conduct. Arnold comes to Shorter from Tabor College, a Christian, liberal arts college in Hillsboro, Kan., where he served as a resident director and director of housing. Prior to his work in residence life, Arnold served with the Christian and Missionary Alliance as an associate pastor for a church plant in Southwestern Iowa, with primary responsibilities for worship and youth ministry.
A graduate of Life Pacific College in theology and Regent University with a Master of Education in student affairs, Arnold was active in church planting and campus ministry, pioneering churches on the campuses of Radford University and Virginia Tech.
He has been an active member of the Association of Christians in Student Development, a professional association devoted to the Christian practice of student affairs, for a number of years and was recently appointed to lead their New Professionals Collaborative.
“We are excited to welcome Josh as director of residence life and student conduct,” said Faust. “He is very much engaged with students and plans to work on building community by revamping our residence hall programming model as well as facilitating student leadership.”
Arnold and his wife, Holly, have two children, Isabella (5) and Noah (2), and are expecting their third child in February.
