How Student Affairs Prepared Me for This Role

Rob Kelly: Being a college president is also like being the mayor of a small town. In student affairs, we deal so much with building community and how to have a tough conversation; that's what we refer to as mutually assured destruction. So while some people take off the presidency, you have ultimate power of what goes on campus. You actually don't. But you do have the pulpit, you can spend time and you can show up and that illustrates what the values are of the institution.