• Advise a caseload of undergraduate students with nontraditional circumstances and experiences on degree requirements, course selection, and academic goal setting. Employ an advising approach grounded in appreciative inquiry, proactive advising, and student development theory. • Evaluate incoming students’ transfer credits. Determine the appropriate transferring of credits within college and university policies and guidelines. • Establish and maintain productive and respectful advising relationships with each student based on timely and thoughtful communication and intentional referrals. Ensure each student feels welcomed and included in the Villanova community. • Monitor students’ academic progress and consistently communicate with faculty members and campus administrators regarding questions, student interventions, new learning opportunities, and curriculum and policy changes. • Devise a program to reframe the perceptions and experiences of employee-dependent students to create a campus environment in which they may thrive. Establish a program name, student learning outcomes, advising syllabus, and assessment procedures. • Actively advocate for and help develop new policies and programs to better serve the rapidly changing student populations and needs. Leverage technology to better collaborate with students and campus partners, streamline the advising process, and engage online students.

• Advised two student organizations focused on educating their peers on the importance of giving back and staying connected to the university. • Managed a coordinator and higher education graduate student to better serve our student and young alumni volunteers. Handled the team’s state budget. Coordinated the team’s job responsibilities to more efficiently attain engagement goals. • Adapted and implemented educational programs supporting philanthropy education, student organization fundraising, and young alumni engagement. • Cultivated sustainable cross-campus partnerships in regular programming and messaging, including the Office of First-Year Experience, the Cohen Career Center, and the Office of Student Unions and Engagement. • Advocated for student and young alumni interests in a fast-paced fundraising environment. • Analyzed data on student and young alumni engagement in order to guide Advancement’s goals and efforts. Conducted extensive research and informational interviews to develop a long-term engagement plan for students and recent graduates. • Oversaw and assisted in student volunteers’ efforts to engage students in populations not normally reached by the Advancement division.

• Audited the office’s outward-facing communication materials to ensure all information is consistent and updated. Generated new communication materials in areas with gaps or inconsistent messaging. • Organized communications into an online office manual to support the sustainability of consistent communication in the future. • Redesigned and originated handouts for faculty advisors by compiling important knowledge about curriculum, degree requirements, and transfer students. • Observed academic advising’s role in Team Transfer meeting to gain a better understanding of how advising, admissions, First Year Experience, and the University Registrar collaborate on the different layers and issues facing transfer students. • Advised students via email regarding questions about their transcripts, as well as policy and requirement petitions to the Committee on Degrees. • Discussed advising messaging with First Year Experience and the Center for the Liberal Arts in order to determine how to best reach first-year students and faculty advisors with important curricular information. • Developed an understanding of the role of academic advising, credits and transcripts, and curriculum at William & Mary by observing professional advisors each with individual focuses on transfer students, first-year and readmitted students, and data and assessment.

• Advised students in transition or at risk on ways to engage with the campus community by getting to know their needs and interests, creating a plan for involvement, and connecting them to relevant resources. • Interpreted data from student engagement surveys to determine how the engagement office should modify its practices to better suit the students’ needs and the office’s mission. • Built sustainable partnerships across campus in order to provide more complete information and resources to the students I advise. • Fostered welcoming environments based on strong partnerships across campus for Student Diversity and Equality Council members to execute their diversity initiatives. • Oversaw the Student Diversity and Equality Council’s state budget and purchasing processes, contracts and events, and daily efforts to create an inclusive campus community. • Increased awareness of the importance of diversity and equity through thoughtful programming and communication with both students and staff throughout the academic year.

• Facilitated the tracking of acknowledgment letters by scanning and linking signed letters to the donor database Millennium before mailing, in order to ensure donors received proper recognition. • Delivered attentive donor stewardship by cross-analyzing reports from hotel databases with donor information in Millennium to determine when donors were visiting the Historic Area. • Informed relevant parties at the foundation of donors’ arrivals to ensure donors received the best reception and care possible. • Contributed to donor retention by planning, executing, and participating in donor events, and collaborating with various parts of the foundation to get donors the things or answers they needed.

• Enhanced the organization’s online presence by managing social media outlets, analyzing data on the reaches of the platforms and individual posts, and strategizing ways to further increase visibility. • Authored a blog series on colonial cooking by navigating the library vaults and delicate historical materials, collaborating with historians and staff members at the library, and collecting data that demonstrated the popularity of my posts. • Marketed the organization’s purpose and resources to local college campuses by advertising my own use of historical materials in my undergraduate research through social media, my blog series, or direct institutional outreach. • Spoke on the Declaration of Independence at an event for international students and members of the board of trustees.