Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster announced on Monday a resuffle in positions that play a role in student life.
Former Director of Student Life Allen Delong will become associate dean of student affairs and director of the David Saul Smith Union, while former Associate Director of Student Activities Nate Hintze will become the director of student activities, effective immediately, according to Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster in a campus-wide email on Monday.
“A lot of it’s more representative of the duties I was already doing,” said Hintze. “[It’s] really exciting to be able to have a new title but be able to continue doing the fun things that we were doing in our office all along.”
As director of student activities, Hintze will be responsible for a range of student programming such as free bowling on Thursdays and hot dogs at the Colby hockey game. His new position will also include budgeting, attending meetings and other administrative tasks.
Hintze is also helping organize this year’s Winter Weekend, which he said will include horse-drawn carriage rides, sled dogs and a throne of ice.
Hintze will continue to work closely with the Office of Residential Life, College Houses and Bowdoin Student Government in his new role. He said that he enjoys hearing from students at his office behind the information desk in Smith Union, and that his door is always open.
“The spring is such a fun time because there are so many things going on, and we’re just excited to work with students and have everybody back on campus and have a really fun and safe spring,” Hintze said.
Delong will now have a role in the development of the new Student Center for Multicultural Life, and he is currently working with the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and alumni programs to organize a reception during Spring Break in New York City for LGBTIQ alumni and students.
“Our goal in student affairs, in student life is to support your education. Sometimes that’s co-curricular, it’s extracurricular, and sometimes it’s, ‘I need a good place to sit and plop and meet my friends,’” Delong said.