Vice President of Student Affairs and Campus Life
607-274-3376
sbazile@ithaca.edu
Stanley Bazile was announced as Ithaca College's Vice President for Student Affairs and Campus Life on April 4, 2024, and began his tenure in the position on June 10, 2024.
Stanley is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction to more than 100 professional staff and over 450 student employees in advancing programs, activities, and services that enhance opportunities for student engagement, leadership, and success. He also supports the development of curricular and co-curricular community partnerships and activities and work collaboratively with the Provost and the Associate Vice President/Chief Human Resources Officer to advance the college’s goals of equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Prior to arriving at Ithaca College, Stanley served as the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students and interim Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at St. Francis College located in Brooklyn, New York. Stanley's accomplishments during his time at St. Francis include: restructuring the student affairs division to most effectively respond to and anticipate student/campus demands; collaborating with academic affairs to create a cross-divisional Student Success and Retention Taskforce charged with creating strategies and making recommendations to close the achievement gap between underrepresented minority and non-marginalized student populations; and helping lead the institution through the challenges of the COVID pandemic and the return of students, faculty, and staff to campus after 17 months of remote learning.
Stanley has enjoyed several other accomplished positions during his 25-year career in higher education. He has held academic and student affairs leadership positions at CUNY-Lehman College, CUNY-Kingsborough Community College, St. John’s University, Cumberland County College, and Penn State University, among other institutions. He has also taught at the undergraduate and doctoral levels and maintains an active research agenda that examines transfer students, retention, and first-generation college students.
He is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and ACPA-College Student Educators International, which recently named him to its 2024 Class of Diamond Honorees, signifying those with an outstanding and sustained commitment to higher education through student affairs and student development.
Stanley received both B.A. and M.S.W. degrees from Stony Brook University, and a Ph.D. in educational leadership from Penn State. He served as a doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated from executive leadership programs at Harvard University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.