Title:              Associate Director for Communications & Partnerships

Email:             sgreene@sc.edu

Phone:           803-777-1941

Sandy Greene oversees University 101 Programs' communications and campus partnerships areas. Sandy also manages the University 101 Scholarship and chairs the committee for the Outstanding Advocate for First-Year Students Award. 

Prior to coming to University 101 Programs, Sandy served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA at the University of South Carolina. In this role, she was responsible for helping to mobilize the student population to serve the Columbia community. 

 

Educational Background

Master of Education - Higher Education and Student Affairs, 2016
University of South Carolina

Bachelor of Arts - History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Expand allPublications

• Friedman, D. and Greene, S. (2020). A model for pulling wisdom from group discussion. The Toolbox: A Teaching and Learning Resource for Instructors. Volume 19, Issue 1. Columbia, SC University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. 
  
  
• Greene, S. & Platt, C.S. Black male honors: The experiences of Black males in the honors college. In Newman, C.B., Platt, C.S., Hilton, A.A., & Hinnan Crawford, B. Multicultural Education in the 21st Century: Innovative Research and Practices. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC. (In press)
  
  
• Friedman, D. & Greene, S. (2019). Increasing the quality of the first-year seminar through greater curricular flexibility.  E-Source Vol 16, No. 2. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

Presentations

• Preconference Workshop on "Strategies to Promote Community Building in an Online First-Year Seminar" at the 40^h Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience (February 2021; Co-presented with Katie Hopkins & Dustin Roberts).
• Webinar Series on “Community Building in an Online First-Year Seminar” for The National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (June 2020; Co-presented with Sandy Greene & Dustin Roberts).
• "Telling the Story of Your First-Year Seminar" at the 39th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience. (February 2020)
• Preconference Workshop on "Strategies for Building Community in a First-Year Seminar" at the 39th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience. (February 2020; Co-presented with Katie Hopkins and Dustin Roberts)
• "Ongoing and Action-Oriented First-Year Seminar Program Assessment" at the 38th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience. (February 2019; Co-presented with Dan Friedman)
• "Early Faculty Development: Training Graduate Students to Teach First-Year Seminars" at the 37th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience (February 2018; Co-presented with Katie Hopkins) 
• "Integrating Campus Partners into a First-Year Seminar" at the 37th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience (February 2018; Co-presented with Catherine Greene and Kat Edmund)
• "Designing a Course in the First-Year Experience Utilizing Integrative Learning" at the Gulf South Summit (March 2017; Co-presented with Theresa Harrison) 
• "Designing and Enhancing Peer Educator Programs Through Recruitment and Training" at the 36th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience (February 2017; Co-presented with Mike Dial)
• "Harnessing the Power of Service-Learning to Foster Sense of Belonging" at the 2016 Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (PACE) Conference (February 2016; Co-presented with Katie Hopkins)
• "Leveraging the Power of Peers" at the 35th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience (February 2016; Co-presented with Tricia Kennedy)
• "FYE GAs Tell All: On School-Work Balance, Professionalization and Successes" at the 35th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience (February 2016; Co-presented with R. Shivener and E. Shreve)
• "Reimagining the Role of Women in Service" at the 2014 Clemson Women’s Leadership Conference (March, 2014; Co-presented with Shawna Dory and Grayson Randall)
• "Opportunity Knocks: Using Conflict in Team Building and Planning" at The Georgia Collegiate Leadership Conference (March 2014; Co-presented with Ashley Jaramillo and Katie Miller)