Dean of the College Community

The Dean of the College Community, Armando I. Bengochea, began work at the College in 2006 after serving 20 years as an academic dean at Brown University. A political scientist by training, Dean Bengochea completed his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and doctorate at Princeton University.

The Dean of the College Community (DOCC) oversees the quality of the academic and student life experience at Connecticut College and comprises four offices:

• Dean of Studies, including the Associate Dean of Studies for Freshmen and Sophomores, Associate Dean of Studies for Juniors and Seniors
• Dean of Student Life
• Dean of Multicultural Affairs
• Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life

We plan and carry out their work in tandem throughout the year to enable our students to see themselves as full-time members of the same intense, residential academic community. "Full time" refers here to Connecticut College's expectation that the experience of living in a residential academic community always retains an essential intellectual character even when students are not learning formally in the classroom.

We base our work on the principal value of diversity:  both the diversity of the Conn campus community and the greater New London area, where hundreds of our students are engaged each year in community learning and service. 

The Dean of the College Community also serves as the College's Senior Diversity Officer, helping to ensure that diversity is not a mere "buzz word" at the College but a deeply held belief in the educational efficacy of a certain kind of lived experience for students which our various offices and faculty aim to build on a continuous basis. We challenge all students to realize the benefits of this experience in all that they do at the College.

Reporting through the four subdivisions of the DOCC are:

• Academic Advising
• Career Enhancing Life Skills (CELS) Program
• Fellowships and Scholarships
• Office of Volunteers for Community Service (OVCS)
• The Writing Center
• Disability Services
• the Honor Code and Judicial Affairs
• Religious and Spiritual Life and the College Chaplains
• Residential Life
• Student Activities
• Student Counseling Services
• StudentHealth Services
• Unity House
• International Student Adviser
• LGBTQ Resource Center
• Women's Center

Last Modified: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 16:19