Conflict Education & Student Accountability Director Christy Anthony is on leave for the fall 2024 semester, according to an automatic reply from her GW email address.

Anthony left her director position for the fall semester to serve as the assistant dean of students for Semester at Sea — a study abroad program that takes place on a cruise ship — according to the program’s website. A University spokesperson did not return a request for comment on whether Anthony’s leave was voluntary or involuntary and if students are still undergoing disciplinary proceedings for student conduct cases she initially oversaw in her role as CESA director.

Anthony’s automated email reply states that she plans to return to her role for the spring 2025 semester. Her online appointment scheduling platform allows community members to schedule meetings starting Jan. 8, 2025.

“During the Fall 2024 semester, I will be on a leave of absence from my professional role as GW’s Director of Conflict Education and Student Accountability,” Anthony’s automatic email reply reads.

Officials renamed the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities to CESA in August after Anthony said the name better reflects the staff’s efforts to address student conflicts and violations through coaching and mediation. Anthony joined GW as CESA director in May 2018, according to her LinkedIn.

The University spokesperson didn’t return a request for comment on when Anthony went on leave, given that she hosted an event during first-year orientation at the start of the fall semester. The spokesperson also didn’t return a request for comment on who assumed Anthony’s responsibilities in her absence.

The spokesperson also didn’t return a request for comment on how Anthony’s departure has impacted the University’s ongoing student conduct violations and stay-away orders against students that Metropolitan Police Department officers arrested at the pro-Palestinian encampment last spring. The Student Coalition for Palestine at GWU alleged in late June that the University charged at least 13 students and 10 student organizations “without evidence” for their involvement in the encampment for Code of Student Conduct violations.