Jennifer Hanifl, Ed.D

Summary of Skills

• Cultivate strong relationships
• Devise holistic support strategies
• Analyze and organize data to craft compelling narratives
• Optimize resources and collaborate effectively
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts
• Engage eagerly with others, fostering comfort
• Guide, mentor, motivate, and educate purposefully
• Harness diverse mindsets and skills effectively
• Forge interdepartmental relationships
• Act as a liaison, offering networking opportunities
• Skillfully facilitate accessible education

• Manage first-generation programs for high-schoolers and college students
• Advise, register, aid learning, provide support, and track degrees for first-gen students
• Cultivate familial community among first-gens
• Expand first-gen programming through benefactor relations and philanthropy
• Conduct major gift donor visits, and collaborate on annual giving and stewardship
• Handle grant authorship and annual reports for benefactors
• Lead first-gen advisory board meetings
• Advise Zeta Delta, a national first-gen honors society chapter
• Manage first-gen marketing and communication
• Strategically plan, assess, and innovate first-gen programing
• Oversee C2C, a summer college prep program–event planning and execution
• Develop first-gen programming, including workshops and mentorship
• Travel nationally for promotion, recruitment, and engagement
• Ensure success for first-gen students, from start to finish, and beyond
• Support all students, especially first-gen, academically, socially, and culturally
• Aid tutoring coordination
• Manage early alerts as a Case Manager
• Coach students in goal-setting and academic achievement
• Coordinate orientations and events, and engage with students
• Collaborate with faculty for course support and intervention
• Assist English department with writing labs
• Supervise student employees (learning assistants and guided study workers)
• Partner with Advancement for benefactor relations
• Develop completion tracking system for first-gen students
• Analyze data, research, and create reports for the Office of Institutional Effectiveness
• Co-author grant proposals
• Design / manage the first-gen webpage

Ed.D in Higher Education Leadership, Edgewood College, 2017

M.A. in English, University of St. Thomas, 2012

B.I.L. in Pre-Law and English, Viterbo University, 2008

44 credit hours (before transfer), Western Technical College, 2005