ABSTRACT
Dean M. Eunice Hilton (1899–1975) led the heralded Student Dean Program for women at Syracuse University from 1935 to 1949. This graduate program was among the first of its kind and prepared women to administer comprehensive services, give instruction, and provide guidance and counsel to women students through positions in higher education. Hilton’s vision for how educational communities for women students, faculty members, and administrators should be created and maintained included a new organizational model that she put to work at Syracuse University. This included specific instructions for bringing women academics (faculty and administrators) into the center of the conversations regarding an institution’s mission, which she believed must be about developing the whole student. This notion of educating the whole student was articulated in depth in 1937 by the American Council on Education, which developed the Student Personnel Point of View commonly referred to as the SPPV. This chapter explores Hilton’s leadership at this critical time and how it fostered sustained institutional change.
