Clayton State’s Dr. Andre Clanton elected President of the Association of Student Conduct Administration
(October 15, 2026) - Clayton State University’s Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards, Dr. Andre Clanton, has been elected President of the Association for Student Conduct Administration.
Dr. Clanton has a long history of involvement with the Association for Student Conduct Administration. He said, “The first annual conference I attended was in 1997 as a grad student. I started attending regularly in 2008 when I started my position here as Assistant Director of Student Conduct.”
Over the years, Dr. Clanton’s involvement with the Association for Student Conduct Administration has grown and eventually led to this appointment as President. He explained, “I've served on the board as a board member, a director at large, and then I started serving as faculty for the various educational opportunities they provide our members.” Eventually, in recent years, Dr. Clanton said he decided, “I really want to give back to this association, which has given me so much, particularly in meeting the individual members where we start out as colleagues, but now we're friends. And I really appreciate that. So, it's really a desire for me to give back and to support other student conduct professionals.”
His career path gradually led him to a focus on the specialty of student conduct. Dr. Clanton said, “Initially, my career in student affairs started in housing as a resident director, and I went up the ladder all the way up to assistant director. And then a position for assistant director of Student Conduct became available here at Clayton State in 2008, and I applied, and that is when my sole responsibility was student conduct rather than housing and doing some student conduct within housing. Now, it was totally student conduct.”
Since the time Dr. Clanton started in the position at Clayton State, the field of student conduct has grown and developed a great deal over the past eighteen years. He said, “Student conduct and housing have worked together in addressing conduct violations in the residence hall. And then taking on academic misconduct, which is an area of misconduct that is continuing to grow, specifically as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI).”
Dr. Clanton says the approach to student conduct has also changed since 2008. He explained, “It has evolved. Student conduct has moved from a more punitive process to a more developmental process. There's so much more you can do as far as student development is concerned with student conduct. Rather than just punishing folks who do wrong, it's about really developing them and helping them learn how to make better decisions. So, it's changed, and it's been a great thing to watch.”