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Susan Albertine

	Susan Albertine

Susan Albertine is vice president, Office of Engagement, Inclusion, and Success, at AAC&U. She provides leadership for the overall program of LEAP partner state initiatives, for programs and activities related to college readiness and student success, and for the Making Excellence Inclusive initiative. She serves as liaison to project contacts in the field, including policy, campus, business, P16, and community leaders. The office is responsible for AAC&U’s Network for Academic Renewal meetings and for the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success.

Albertine received her BA in English from Cornell University, her MA in English from SUNY Cortland, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. She was active in AAC&U before becoming vice president, serving as co-leader of the Educated Citizen and Public Health initiative, a collaborative project co-sponsored by AAC&U, the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, the Association of Schools of Public Health, and other organizations, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was dean of the School of Culture and Society and professor of English at the College of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. Previously, she served as vice provost for undergraduate studies, Temple University, and assistant to the provost, University of Pennsylvania. She has held faculty positions at the University of North Florida, St. Olaf College, and Susquehanna University, where she was chair of the Department of English. Her scholarship in American literature of the late 19th century led to research and an array of publications on women’s work in print culture and on businesswomen’s careers (in fiction and history) during the growth phase of industrialization in the U.S.

A former public school teacher, Albertine has been nationally active to advance pre-school through college alignment, working with the Education Trust and the American Diploma Project. Her board service has included the Camden Academy Charter High School in Camden, New Jersey; the Advisory Board for the Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity—Faculty Study, University of Delaware; the Art Sanctuary, an African-American arts and letters organization based in Philadelphia; the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Albertine is a member of the Advisory Board, National Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.