Program Counselor Academic Advisor
Resume:
ZALIKA TAYLOR
**** **** **** ******, *** floor
Brooklyn, NY 11236
************@*****.***
Qualifications: Twenty+ years of experience in higher education settings using highly effective interpersonal and communicative skills with a team approach to reaching students in an advising, counseling and teaching capacity with strong results in supervision and evaluation.
Job Objective: Seeking an opportunity to share my student-centered social justice advising and programming frameworks to increase student persistence with a team of engaging staff members. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Enrollment Services Counselor 3/2012-2/2021
School of Education, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Counseled undergraduates and graduates through advising over 500 students in teacher education, school counseling, mental health counseling, marriage & family therapy and school psychology programs.
Developed materials to support certification of students enrolled in the New York City Chancellor Teaching Fellows, Partner Teachers and Paraprofessionals programs.
Increased on-time graduation rates for students through direct counseling on the university’s liberal arts core, programmatic sequencing, and graduation and NYS certification requirements.
Advised Academic Deans regarding student issues and dispositions, transfer credits, university holds, plans of probation extensions, student readiness for student teaching, practicum and internship experiences along with program completion for graduation and state certification.
Coordinated with Enrollment Services Office and Registrar staff regarding financial aid, course registration mandates, change of grades, graduation audits and transfer credits for all students
Oversaw and maintained all department communications with students regarding registration, jobs, program and policy changes, fieldwork, graduation and NYS certification.
Maintained entire Education department student files regarding academic status, fieldwork experiences, NYS workshops, DOE excess credit letter review and exams’ scores by paper and electronic format along with data input of milestones information in PeopleSoft for degree audits and graduation completion.
Provided interpreted data to Deans in support of departmental meetings for class scheduling, student academic progressions for program continuation and strategies for best practices to assist students with completing their desired program track for future careers in education and counseling.
Recruited students through a dynamic student-centered coaching style on departmental majors offered, program costs and admissions requirements via phone, email or in person contact.
Trained Registrar staff on departmental guidelines, programmatic sequencing and course registration to school of education students across various teaching and counseling programs.
Coordinated Open Houses, Enrollment Services Days and other recruitment and informational events sponsored by Admissions, Campus Life and Student Affairs to increase matriculation numbers for School of Education. Academic Advisor 8/2006-3/2012
Academic Advising Program, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Advised a running caseload of 300 undergraduate students with transitional issues to college life through group and weekly individual meetings.
Increased student success through goal coaching methods using developmental and prescriptive advising models on the intellectual, cultural, and social life of college.
Maintained spreadsheets and individual student files with grades, course warnings and academic statuses.
Ensured accurate placement in first year classes through assessment testing for all students.
Counseled and referred students to appropriate academic, personal and social support services on campus.
Disseminated information regarding academic policies and procedures from key campus offices.
Hired and supervised two student assistants and managed their related payroll and scheduling. Program Counselor for R.I.S.E (Road to Intellectual Success at Emmanuel) 6/2008-5/2011 Office of Admissions, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Served cohorts of 27 accepted first-year students during a 5-week residential summer program.
Provided mediation strategies for conflict resolution to students and Resident Assistants during mandatory study halls.
Counseled students regarding academic, personal and developmental goals to get assimilated to college life.
Maintained detailed progress notes on each student and completed a one-page summary upon program conclusion.
Collaborated with Program Director and Preceptors in areas of student success, academic progress and social programming.
Attended weekly staff and town hall meetings and chaperoned all weekend trips and extracurricular activities.
Continued to serve as a mentor and resource to students throughout the academic year and remainder of their college years. TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Instructor for FYS 1: Freshman Seminar, undergraduate required course LIU-Brooklyn, Fall 2019 Instructor for FYS 1: Freshman Seminar, undergraduate required course LIU-Brooklyn, Fall 2018 Instructor for FYS 1: Freshman Seminar, undergraduate required course LIU-Brooklyn, Fall 2017 Instructor for COOP 1: Career Readiness, undergraduate elective course LIU-Brooklyn, Spring 2015 Instructor for COOP 1: Career Readiness, undergraduate elective course LIU-Brooklyn, Spring 2013 Co-Instructor/Advisor for LHD 488: Eating Disorders, undergraduate elective seminar Stony Brook University 2002 – 2005 Instructor for 4 sections of SBU 101, first year student success seminar Stony Brook University 2002 – 2004 EDUCATION
Master of Arts in Liberal Arts May 2005 Stony Brook University Bachelor of Arts in Psychology August 2000 Stony Brook University
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