Melissa Woolsey — who has been named the assistant director for student rights and community standards — will helm the University’s Student Conduct Board.

Woolsey wrote in an email to the Justice that she first “began to feel very passionate about Student Affairs” at her alma mater, Adrian College, where she worked as an Admissions Counselor. As an undergraduate, Woolsey studied Psychology and Criminal Justice while playing for the varsity soccer team and acting as the president of the Psi Chi honor society.

From Adrian College — which is located in her home state of Michigan — Woolsey traveled to Boston College.

There, she wrote, she “accepted a position as a Graduate Assistant … working within their Dean of Students Office, in the Office of Student Conduct.” Woolsey is currently completing her Masters in Higher Education Administration at BC and will graduate next month.

Regarding her aspirations for her newfound place at Brandeis, Woolsey hopes to “have meaningful conversations that develop into supportive relationships with students” as “another person of support for the student body.”

For the Student Conduct Board in particular, she aims to “help [the board members] to achieve their own personal goals” and to “get to know [her] students on the conduct board, in order to be able to understand and tailor their conduct board experience.”

Woolsey went on to write that the Student Conduct Board “allows our students moving through the process [of alleged University policy violation] to have choices on how they would like to have their case heard. Additionally, it allows a space for our own Brandeis students to hold each other accountable to the high standards that have been set at this institution.”

“I am most excited to immerse myself in the culture of a new and unique university community,” Woolsey shared. “Brandeis students have such a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, interests and affiliations; it is truly exciting to be able to work with such an exceptional student body.”

—Rachel Moore