Strengthening the Leaders
Who Steward the
Student Experience
ASI Campus Partners equips small-to-midsized private colleges and universities to navigate leadership transitions, develop rising talent, and build the organizational structures that sustain the student experience — and the institution itself.
Higher Ed Is Navigating a Leadership Crisis
Small and midsized private colleges are under sustained pressure — rising operational costs, shifting enrollment, tightening compliance demands, and a pipeline that cannot keep pace with the demand for seasoned, mission-ready leaders.
When a Vice President for Student Affairs departs unexpectedly, the ripple effects are immediate and compounding: programs stall, teams lose direction, student-facing services erode, and the institution's reputation for caring about students takes a quiet but measurable hit.
ASI Campus Partners was founded to meet this moment. We offer sustainable solutions — not just for the vacancy in front of you, but for the leadership demands your institution will face in the years ahead.
"Building a vibrant, supportive student experience takes more than running a workshop or filling a vacancy. We help you invest in your leaders and institution, because a stronger team today is what will make the student experience possible into the future."
— Dr. Joshua Arnold & Dr. Ian Slater, Co-FoundersThree Ways We Partner
With Your Institution
Every engagement is custom-scoped and collaboratively priced. We work with your team — not around it.
Pricing is determined individually based on your institution's scope, needs, and resources. We do not publish rate cards. Every conversation starts with listening.
Leadership Development
Equip your current and rising leaders with the coaching, frameworks, and professional competencies needed to lead effectively, at your institution and within your mission.
- Executive Coaching (3–12 month engagements)
- Growth Cohorts for Rising Leaders
- Performance Improvement Coaching
- Conflict & Team Coaching
Leadership Transitions
Turn a disruptive vacancy into a moment of strategic opportunity. We help you develop viable interim solutions, capture needed realignments, support your search, and help your new leaders be successful.
- Interim Leadership Support
- Transition Planning & Preparation
- Executive Search Process Support
- First-Year Leader Onboarding Coaching
Organizational Health
Align your student affairs division around your most critical priorities — student success, financial sustainability, and long-term organizational effectiveness.
- Alignment & Structure Audit
- Retention Strategy
- Financial Health Initiatives
- Organizational Health Check
"The mission, viability, and impact of many colleges and universities are built on a quality student experience. We help you unlock that experience by developing your talent, navigating your transitions, and strengthening the structures that make it all possible."
Built for Leaders at
Mission-Driven Institutions
We work with senior institutional leaders and HR directors at small-to-midsized private colleges — institutions where the student experience is inseparable from the mission and identity of the place itself.
Presidents & Chancellors
You need a trusted external partner to stabilize a key division, evaluate organizational health, or support a strategic transition — with someone who has lived these challenges from the inside.
Vice Presidents for Student Affairs
You want to strengthen your team, accelerate a rising leader, or bring independent expertise (or backup) to a structural challenge you're having difficulty resolving.
Chief Human Resources Officers
You're managing a leadership vacancy, a performance situation, or a team misalignment, and you need skilled, discreet, unbiased external support to navigate it well.
Mission-Driven Institutions
Your institution stands for something. The student experience is central to what makes you distinctly worth choosing. We get that, because we've lived it.
Led by Seasoned Practitioners
Both managing partners have held VP-level executive roles at the exact type of institutions that ASI serves, and hold doctorates in higher education. They know this terrain — your budget pressures, your personnel realities, your mission stakes — from the inside.
For 20+ years, Joshua has served in higher education leadership, including holding several executive VP-level roles. His leadership has spanned admissions, athletics, and student affairs at small-to-midsized private colleges. He remains active in leadership roles with several national organizations representing the professional practice of Student Affairs, and currently serves as an adjunct professor, dissertation chair, and mentor coach at Regent University.
Ian has spent 15+ years in student development, including director, dean, and VP-level roles spanning student success, student affairs, and enrollment management. Ian is driven by the conviction that higher education, at its best, is a genuine catalyst for students' personal and community transformation. His work is anchored in mission-centered leadership and institutional sustainability.
How an Engagement Works
Simple, low-risk, and built entirely around your institution's real situation.
Free Consultation
Let's start with a conversation about your institution's challenges, goals, and what success would look like. No obligation, no pitch.
Custom Proposal
After evaluating needs and opportunities, we develop a tailored scope of work, priced collaboratively based on your needs and institutional resources.
We Get to Work
We work with you to launch the engagement promptly and strategically. We're practitioners — we know how to step into complex environments and add value fast.
Lasting Capacity
We build knowledge transfer into every engagement, with the goal that your team is more capable long after our partnership concludes.
Your Student Experience Needs
Strong Leadership
Whether you're facing an urgent transition, a team in need of development, or a division that needs a fresh structural perspective, we'd be honored to listen and explore what's possible together.
No obligation. No sales pressure. Just a genuine conversation.