Ben Hatfield

Purdue Athletics - Assistant Director of Academic Support Services

Lafayette, Indiana, United States

About

I am a former student-athlete at Bluffton University and Graduate Assistant at Purdue University. For 3 years I worked as an Academic Coordinator within Ball State's Student-Athlete Support Services department. During this I had the opportunity to work with a diverse student-athlete population with students from all over the world. In the Summer 2021 semester, I returned to Purdue as a Learning Specialist and was fortunate to be promoted to Assistant Director of Football Academics and the Center of Academic Vision and Enrichment (CAVE) in the Spring of 2023. Following the Spring 2024 semester, I made the transition to Academic Advisor within the Agricultural Economics program within the Purdue College of Agriculture.

Experience

  • Assistant Director - Academic Support Services at Purdue Athletics
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

  • Academic Advisor at Purdue University Agricultural Economics
    May 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Purdue University (Full-time · 3 yrs 3 mos)
    • Assistant Director of Football Academics and the Center for Academic Vision and Enrichment
      Jan 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Football Academic Support Services
      Jul 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Football Academic Coordinator at Ball State University
    Jul 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Graduate Assistant - Student-Athlete Academic Support Services at Purdue University
    Jun 2016 - Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    -Primary Academic Advisor for the Men’s Golf (2017-2018) and assisted with a case load of 15-20 Football Student-Athletes (2016-2018) -Assembled objective-based planning sessions with football advisees in preparation for evening study halls -Hired and trained tutors for all sports, daily upkeep of the tutor database, process payroll, and identify on-campus tutoring resources for all Student-Athletes -Implemented proper study techniques for “At-Risk” Student-Athletes as the Interim Learning Specialist (October 2016-February 2017) -Communicated weekly with all coaches to talk about study hours for each program