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Alexis Pi帽ero-Benson, director of community standards at UNH, was the recipient of this year鈥檚 Dixon-McFadden Award from the Association of Student Conduct Administrators (ASCA). Pi帽ero-Benson received the award during the 2025 ASCA Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon on Feb. 7.

The Dixon-McFadden Award is 鈥渋ntended to recognize an individual who has been a trailblazer on campus as it relates to student conduct; an individual who has enhanced the lives of students by going above and beyond. The individual recognized with this award is not a new professional; however, it is an individual who has demonstrated experience in leading and serving a campus community.鈥�

"Alexis' ongoing outstanding leadership has made a lasting impact on the division of student life and our campus. He has consistently put others over himself. He thinks beyond the walls of his department, and his efforts have established effective partnerships where they never were imagined previously,鈥� says Michael Blackman, dean of students at UNH. 鈥淚 am perpetually grateful that a national leader in the field like Alexis has dedicated his service to UNH. This honor reinforces how lucky we are to have him as a part of our team."

The Dixon-McFadden award was named after St. John Dixon and James McFadden, two of the nine students summarily expelled from Alabama State College for engaging in a sit-in to confront segregation at the Montgomery County courthouse on Feb. 25, 1960. Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education is the landmark case for the student conduct profession, after the Fifth Circuit held that students attending public universities had a protected interest in completing their education, and, therefore, were entitled to a minimum level of due process protections prior to being expelled for misconduct.

The ASCA honor comes on the heels of Pi帽ero-Benson being accepted as a faculty member at the Gehring Academy for the second year in a row last summer. He served as faculty for the senior conduct officer track, which included new senior conduct professionals and upper-level executives who have oversight of their institution鈥檚 student conduct office from higher ed institutions throughout the U.S. and Canada.

In his role at UNH, Pi帽ero-Benson serves as the chief student conduct officer and oversees the university鈥檚 disciplinary system and conflict resolution programs across all campuses and leads the Office of Community Standards to be situated as the primary resource to educate students on the rights and responsibilities of community membership. 鈥淲e want our students to uphold the highest standards of mutual respect and integrity and when they fall short of those expectations, I am fully committed to creating educational pathways for reflection and accountability that allows students to recover and persist towards degree completion鈥� he says.