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Student Mental Health During COVID: Telehealth, Licensure, and Responding to Students in Need

Speaker Biographies

Kevin KrugerKevin Kruger is the President of NASPA. He draws on draws on more than 40 years of experience in higher education. Since 2012, he has served as president and CEO for NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Prior to his role as president, Dr. Kruger worked for 18 years as the associate executive director and served as the chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO) for NASPA. He has held a range of student affairs positions at Southern Methodist University and the University of Maryland. As NASPA president, Dr. Kruger represents student affairs at a variety of national forums and is a frequent contributor to higher education news stories on the college student experience. Dr. Kruger has published and presented nationally and globally on trends in higher education, student success, degree-completion strategies for low-income/first-generation students, and change management and leadership in higher education. He is the proud father of two children, one a recent college graduate and the other a college sophomore. Dr. Kruger received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Maryland.

 

Paul LannonPaul Lannon is a litigation partner at Holland & Knight where he is Co-Chair of the firm's national Education Team.  Mr. Lannon serves as outside general counsel to several NACUA members and regularly defends colleges and universities in court and before the US Department of Education and other administrative agencies. He served on NACUA's Board of Directors (Class of FY 2015-2018), the Board of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, and is Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Boston Bar Association.

 

 

 

 

Hannah RossHannah Ross, currently General Counsel, Secretary of the Corporation and Chief of Staff of Middlebury College was appointed as Middlebury’s first General Counsel on December 1, 2016. She serves as the General Counsel to the liberal arts college in Vermont, as well as the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey, California, the Bread Loaf School of English, and Middlebury's Language Schools and Schools Abroad. She provides legal and strategic advice to the President, the Board of Trustees, and senior administrators.

Hannah has practiced in higher education since 2003, when she joined Princeton University’s Office of the General Counsel. At Princeton, her practice areas included student affairs; campus development and construction; privacy and information security; and support for health services. Prior to Princeton, Hannah was in private practice as a civil litigator and employment lawyer with Hill & Barlow, P.C. and Goulston & Storrs in Boston. After law school, she clerked for Justice Denise Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Hannah is currently Chair of the NACUANOTES Editorial Board. She previously served as Vice Chair on the NACUANOTES Editorial Board for four years and prior to that, she served as a member of the Editorial Board for three years. Her NACUA committee participation also includes past service on the Committees on Program for Annual Conference, Publications, and the Editorial Board, The Journal of College and University Law.

Hannah received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University and her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.