Institute Faculty

Amelia Parnell

Vice President for Research and Policy, NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Amelia Parnell is vice president for research and policy at NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, where she and leads many of the Association’s scholarly and advocacy-focused activities. Amelia writes and speaks frequently about topics related to student affairs, college affordability, student learning outcomes, leadership in higher education, and institutions’ use of data and analytics.


Areas of Expertise

  • documenting and assessing co-curricular learning
  • strategic communication
  • student development theory