Emilye Mobley Named Vice President for Student Development at GSSM
July 13, 2010
GSSM is pleased
to announce that Emilye Mobley has joined the GSSM administration as
the new vice president for student development.
In this role, Mobley is responsible for all non-academic programs
including admissions, residence life, student activities, health
services, athletics, counseling and college placement.
"My vision for student development at GSSM is to make the out-of-class
experience as educationally purposeful as the in-class experience,"
Mobley said. "While supporting the Governor's School academic program, I
will work in conjunction with faculty and staff to continue to buttress
our students' holistic development through leadership, service, and the
co-curricular."
With a research background in character development and organizational
behavior, Mobley said she hopes to enhance the college preparatory
experience that GSSM students receive.
"One of my initial goals is to work with students and colleagues to
assist students in developing their non-academic portfolios, giving
prospective institutions and programs a broader sense of their cognitive
and non-cognitive qualifications and attributes."
Prior to coming to GSSM, Ms. Mobley worked throughout the Southeast
serving small colleges in a variety of roles including vice president
for student affairs at Bennett College in Greensboro, NC; dean of
students at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, NC; and
director of residential life at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. For the
last two years, she has served as an educational consultant while
completing her doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
Mobley holds a master's degree in counseling and guidance from UNC
Greensboro and a bachelor's degree in education from UNC Chapel Hill. She also completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard
University and participated in the Oxford Roundtable in Oxford, England.