Appointed Tuesday as the interim vice provost for student affairs, current Dean of Students Greg Boardman will soon have a handful of extra offices under his control.

Boardman will replace Gene Awakuni to oversee the Office of Residential Education, the Vaden Student Health Center, the Office of Accessible Education and the Graduate Life Office, among others. Boardman’s responsibilities will be expanded to include all of these, in addition to his current duties as Dean of Students.

Boardman said he will relocate to the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs a few days before March 1, when Awakuni is slated to leave.

It has taken the University over six weeks to choose a replacement for Awakuni, who announced at the beginning of December that he would be assuming the chancellorship at the University of Hawaii-West O’ahu campus.

University Provost John Etchemendy appointed Boardman to the interim post this week. It is slated to last about a year, Boardman said, while top-level administrators assess how the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs needs to be restructured “for the long-term benefit of students.”

Boardman sees the interim period as a transition both personally and for the University’s administration.

He could not comment on the possible changes the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Affairs may undergo through the course of the planned restructuring. But Etchemendy has denied rumors that the office will be merged with the office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, led by John Bravman.

Boardman has served as Dean of Students since he came to Stanford in December 2003.

“This is the first opportunity I have had to serve as vice provost,” he said.

Yet his previous experience at Tulane University, where he served as assistant vice president for student affairs, has left him “very prepared” to assume leadership of the new office, he said.

“I’ve been in student affairs for over 25 years and my previous role at Tulane had similar responsibilities,” Boardman added.

Among the other offices that will fall under Boardman’s control in March are the Career Development Center, community centers, the Haas Center for Public Service and the office of the Dean of Freshmen and Transfer Students.