South Carolina Honors College
Faculty and Staff
Tracy Skipper, PhD
Title: | Senior Thesis Director and Academic Advisor |
South Carolina Honors College | |
Email: | tlskippe@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803.777.9737 |
Office: | Harper College 122A |

Before joining the Honors College, Dr. Tracy Skipper worked at UofSC for more than
two decades, most recently as assistant director for publications at the National
Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, where she
managed a small academic press publishing books and periodicals focused on college
student transitions, learning and development. She has been a frequent contributor
to the literature on college student success. Prior to that, Tracy served as a student
affairs administrator at Wesleyan College and Shorter College before returning to
UofSC for graduate studies. She has taught various courses, including introductory
and upper-level English courses, University 101 and University 401. In addition, she
is a past staff co-chair of the Provost’s Advisory Committee for Women’s Initiatives.
A graduate of South Carolina Honors College, Tracy also holds degrees in higher education
(Master of Science, Florida State University), American literature (Master of Arts,
UofSC) and rhetoric and composition (Doctor of Philosophy, UofSC). She and her husband
Randall Dong live in Columbia with their son Aidan and rescue pup Charlie.