Student Academic Services Center

Academic Transitions Staff

Administrative Staff

Now, it is my privilege to work with the McNeill Academic program as director. Every day my colleagues and I engage the best practices we have -- those gathered from experience -- our own and that of our students, from the literatures of education and student development, and from our professional colleagues around the campus, to provide and co-create a learning community where becoming and belonging is valued, academic excellence is nurtured, and an ethic of leadership and service, to self and community, is practiced.

I took a long time to recognize myself as a writer. In college, I declared dramatic arts as my major, but it wasn’t until senior year that I realized I’d taken so many writing classes I could declare English as a double. After college, I fell into publishing for a couple of years, then decided to set out and find my own story. I sold everything I had, bought a backpack, and walked from Georgia to Maine. It took me six months. I came back determined to attend graduate school and write a non-fiction account of one woman’s walk through the woods. My thesis ended up a children’s novel—a magical account of a girl who follows an ancient trail for two thousand miles in search of a fruit with three seeds: one for love, one for wisdom, one for truth.

At the end of my grad program, I had told my story but hardly in the traditional way I’d planned. When I finished, I felt I’d lost my community and my sense of exploration. And then I found SASC. I started off teaching one section of first-year research and writing in the basement of Norlin Library. Now I’m a writing instructor, a writing tutor, the IA supervisor, and an editor for sub-scribe magazine. I am also the owner of the most cushy couch and the most powerful space heater in the department. Currently, I’m working on two writing projects: a non-fiction book about my time in Thailand documenting Theravada Buddhist nuns’ fight for ordination rights, and a collection of magical realist short stories.

I am a sophomore Germanic Studies and Linguistics major with a minor in Italian. I grew up in Boulder but sometimes wish I went out of state for a change of scenery! Next fall I plan to attend Regensburg University in Germany for a year to learn more German, gain personal experience abroad, and to actually get a chance to live in a foreign country!

As a writing consultant, I’m great for proof reading, spelling, and grammar check! Come check out my help hours if this is what you need help on!!!!

My name is Natalie Peguero, I am a sophomore, Business Accounting major. Besides being an IA for SASC, I am also a peer counselor with CMA (Center for Multicultural Affairs), and a diversity mentor for Hallett Hall.

I am involved in U.M.A.S. y M.E.Ch.A (United Mexican American Students y Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan), QPOC (Queer People of Color), and LSA (Latin Student Alliance). I am a very good listener, and I think that one of my strengths when reading papers is helping with source integration, checking for grammar, and helping students organize their papers. So if you think you need help in any of these areas, stop by my office hours Mondays from 1-3 pm

¿Qué onda mi raza? Well four years later and I am still here at CU-Boulder. I am excited to be beginning my fifth year at the university, and I don’t think that I will ever be ready to graduate. During the past four years here at CU, I have been lucky and privileged to have experienced all that I have. From taking classes that helped to define my revolutionary consciousness, to creating relationships that I will cherish forever, to spending a year in México I have truly had the time of my life. I have also had the opportunity to be involved with some incredible student organizations on campus such as UMAS y MEChA and the nation’s largest Latino fraternity…the most honorable Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc.

After being confused for the first three years of my college experience, I finally dropped the English major and declared Ethnic Studies as my primary major…probably the smartest thing I have done here at CU. With a concentration in American Indian Studies and Chicana/o Studies, I have dedicated myself to reclaiming the histories that I have been denied throughout my entire life, giving voices to the ancestors that have been silenced and forgotten, and enacting real revolutionary change so that that this country and world become free and equal.

Although I may not be ready to leave, I know that there comes a time when we all must move on to new things in our lives. I look forward to possibly participating in the Teach for America program after I graduate next May, and plan to return to a university campus someday to pursue a career as an Ethnic Studies professor. I am hopeful for what the world has to offer and am passionate about making it a better place.

Hi, my names is James Silva, and I’m a 22 year old Political Science and English major college student, reputedly intelligent, patient, analytical with varied interests in politics, Modern and Spanish literature, editing, Indie and Punk music and Do-It-Yourself culture.

I'd like to meet students with varied interests, curious about the world, comfortable expressing likes and dislikes about writing (I hate struggling to guess), delighting in the ability to fascinate a reader, and in being respected as a student/writer, value argument, research, truth, exploration of thought, justice and intellectual growth.

The current scope of my life is surrounded and enriched by writing. I spend much of my time studying, composing Post-Modern short stories, watching Latin American soccer games via the Internet and finishing up my undergraduate education.

If you are interested in procuring my advice and aid in your writing endeavors, please see me. Together we can make something that seems dreary and confusing become a powerful tool in enhancing your voice.

Maruawe! (Hello in the Comanche language) I currently serve as the Assistant Director for the CU Upward Bound program which prepares low income/ first generation college students in grades 9-11 for college. Prior to my relocation to Boulder, CO, I served as a scholarship coordinator and GED math instructor for the Comanche Nation Office of Higher Education located in Lawton, Oklahoma. I have a B.A. degree in Government and a Certificate in Native American Studies from Dartmouth College and am currently pursuing a Master's degree in Educational Policy within the CU Boulder School of Education.