Academic Advisor
(she/her/hers)
Biography
Dara Lawyer has been an advisor since October 2022. Her advising interests include:
- First-generation and under-resourced students
- Career exploration, advising, and development
- Transfer students
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Pre-health advising
- Appreciative advising
- Coaching as advising
Research Interests
- First-generation student success, retention, and persistence
- Academic advising outcomes and assessment
- Transfer student success, retention, and persistence
- Probationary student success, retention, and persistence
Education
- M.S. Community Development, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
- B.S. Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
- Certificate in Public Management, Laramie County Community College
- Certificate in Academic and Professional Coaching, LifeBound