Welcome

Perhaps the best preparation for my work in higher education was the time I spent getting into and out of trouble throughout my education, beginning with the Little Red House Nursery School.  I have a well-developed sense of irony, a keen ear for shaky excuses, and a genuine appreciation of students who don’t see things quite the way their institution might want them to.

I have had the privilege of serving as Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Wheaton College (MA, not IL), and Dean of Students at the University of Connecticut.  For several years, I stepped away from full-time higher education administration in order to learn more about serving college students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and was lucky enough to do that for two years with Mansfield Hall in Burlington, VT, as Director of Collegiate Partnerships.  

These days, I manage the College Autism Network, and consult with colleges and universities seeking to improve their services to students with autism.  I also have College Readiness Conversations with high school students and their families about the realities of campus-based support for mental health and learning challenges.  I occasionally teach in the University of Vermont's Higher Ed and Student Affairs graduate program.  And I write as often as I can about all of this.  

Articles

You can find text links to all of the articles I’ve published in About Campus, a magazine for professional educators.  They are evidence of the way I view my work:  a series of interrelated narratives that, when taken together, comprise the arc of my life in higher education.  There are also many articles from a number of other publications, both print and online which are also referenced.

Resources

You'll find my course syllabi, my c.v., various professional presentations, and some other personal and professional links that might be useful. 

My blogs

Travel blogs:

• Jordan and Egypt, 2010

• Bhutan, October 2011

Others:

• D-Log (from the Dean of Students Office of Wheaton College)

• SA Subversive (from The Student Affairs Collective)

• SA Subversive 2

• Clothes Down (More personal, an experiment and where it led me)

Books

My most recent book is Emerging Issues and Practices in Peer Education: New Directions for Student Services, Number 133.

If you're interested in the book I edited with Barbara Leigh Smith (Learning Communities and Student Affairs; Partnering and Powerful Learning) you can get more information at the NASPA Bookstore.

Looking for fun around the workplace?  Check out the Personal section for fun and educational activities including the never-before-seen (by you) Uconn Oozeball multimedia experience.

Also, if you're interested in international travel, check out my blogs from my trip through the Middle East summer 2008 at leeofarabia.blogspot.com or my 2011 adventure in Bhutan at leeinbhutan.blogspot.com.