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Nancy O'Neill

	Nancy O'Neill

Nancy O’Neill is Director of Programs for the Office of Education and Institutional Renewal and Assistant Director for the Core Commitments initiative at AAC&U. In the latter role, she has helped to lead a national re-engagement with education for personal and social responsibility at the college level, consulting with campuses, evaluating programs, and organizing workshops and symposia.

Prior to this, she served as the principal editor for a series of publications on diversity and institutional change developed through the Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Project and Making Excellence Inclusive initiative. She has also worked on the Association’s efforts directed at under-served student success and served as a faculty member at the Greater Expectations and Engaging Departments Institutes.

O’Neill holds an M.A. in American Studies and an M.Ed. in Higher Education-Student Affairs from the University of Maryland and earned an individualized bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Social Criticism from the University at Buffalo.

Her interests include academic affairs-student affairs partnerships, diversity and campus climate, student intellectual development, and institutional change centered on liberal education.