Dear Student,
I am writing to inform you about the recent departure of Dean Frazitta and to introduce you to those who will serve as your advising deans this spring.
Stephanie Frazitta has accepted an opportunity elsewhere and departed Tufts on January 13. She departs for Northeastern, where she will serve as Director of Undergraduate Advising for the College of Science.
I am very pleased to announce that Susan Koegel has returned to Tufts to serve as an Interim Associate Dean for the Spring semester. As Interim Associate Dean, Susan Koegel will serve a five-month period (mid-January through mid-June) as advising dean for the Liberal Arts M–R cohort while we strive to fill the open advising dean position permanently this May or June. From 2010 to 2019, Dean Koegel taught in Tufts' Department of Biology. She taught BIO 13, BIO 46, and BIO 52 and served as advisor and mentor to students studying Biology, Biopsychology, and Biochemistry. She also collaborated extensively with the Academic Resource Center to establish a peer-based, tutor-led study group program to increase student persistence in biology. Dean Koegel's excellence as a teacher and advisor at Tufts has been recognized through several awards, including the Lerman-Neubauer Prize, Teaching with Technology Award, and Tufts University Professor of the Year.
Another Associate Dean will be joining the Arts and Sciences advising dean team in February. Her name is Caitlin Casey, and she comes to Tufts from Harvard, where she served as a residential house dean for the past decade. Dean Casey will be serving the Liberal Arts alphabet cohort of S–Z, replacing the role most recently filled by Robin Olinsky. I will send a detailed introduction to Dean Casey as well as information on the updated advising dean assignments after Dean Casey starts at Tufts in February.
For the current "alpha dean" assignments, please see below. Your Advising Dean ensures that you are making progress toward graduation and can help you navigate academic policies or any setbacks that impact your academics. First-year and sophomore students can also book an appointment with their Senior Academic Advisors, Ericka Miranda and Allison Vander Broek, for additional advising support.
Effective January 24, undergraduate Arts and Sciences students will be assigned to their interim Advising Deans as follows:
