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Jeanne Ortiz
formally began her term of office as Whittier’s Dean of Students
on March 1, 2006.
Ortiz
started her career in the field of higher education in 1979 as a
member of the faculty at the State University College at
Buffalo. Her academic interests in urban planning and housing
soon led her out of the classroom and into hands-on work with
residence life staff; subsequently, she shifted her professional
focus permanently to student life and development.
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Her
diligence and hard work in this crucial area of campus
operations resulted in positions of increasing responsibility:
as associate dean of students at Houghton College in New York;
as dean of student life at University of The Incarnate Word, a
fellow Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) located in Texas; and
vice president for student development and dean of students at
the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, a top East Coast women’s
college, where she served for nearly a decade.
Throughout her career in academe, Ortiz has been dedicated to
helping students to engage in leadership development,
particularly with application toward service and change in the
campus and larger communities. To that end, at College of Notre
Dame Ortiz co-chaired the development of a certificate program
in Leadership and Social Change, an academic and experiential
program widely hailed by its graduates as instrumental in
achieving early professional success.
Additionally, Ortiz has served on numerous education-and
community-related boards and committees, notably with the
governing board for the Baltimore Collegetown Network, a higher
education organization which strives to partner its membership
of 15 local colleges and universities together with government,
business, and community leaders in order to develop and market
Baltimore as a vibrant place to live and learn.
Ortiz earned her doctoral degree in educational administration,
organization, and policy from State University of New York at
Buffalo; her master’s degree in urban planning and human
environment and design from Michigan State University; and her
undergraduate degree in home economics education from Mansfield
State University in Pennsylvania. She has presented her research
at industry conferences around the country, and she authored the
chapter “Living a Life of Honor,” published in the Information
Age Publishers’ forthcoming text,
Student Affairs at Catholic
Colleges and Universities: Lessons Learned and Shared—A Case
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