Biography
Senior Advisor to the Dean Vicki Mayer specializes in developing and implementing transformative initiatives that enhance student success, faculty engagement, and community in service of the school’s long-term strategic pillars.
Vicki will manage a portfolio that includes capacity- and infrastructure-building for special initiatives focused on: liberal arts careers of the future, cross-School and community-based innovation, external and internal review processes, and interdisciplinary programmatic start-ups.
As a former department chair and an accomplished researcher of communication industries, media, creative economy and labor, Vicki joined the Dean’s Office in 2018 as an Associate Dean of Undergraduate Curriculum and Initiatives. Her past successes include: Tenenbaum Tutorials; Creative Medical Scholars; STEM2 programming in liberal arts, technology, and science; Liberal Arts Summer; Young Public Scholars; the Strategy, Leadership, and Analytics Minor (SLAM); MediaNOLA digital history platform; ViaNolaVie Magazine and Digital Civic Engagement; along with crisis management of teaching and instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.