Jennifer Belichesky-Larson Named Assistant Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives

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Jennifer Belichesky-Larson, Assistant Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives

Jennifer Belichesky-Larson, Ed.D., joins LMU’s Office of the Provost in March 2020 to serve as assistant vice provost for Strategic Initiatives, leading campus-wide efforts on undergraduate student retention, data governance, and other projects of strategic importance to the institution. As LMU’s first data governance officer, Belichesky-Larson’s responsibilities will include institution-wide data governance policies, practices, and standards. Belichesky-Larson will also serve as the provost’s primary adviser for undergraduate student retention, for which she will coordinate and assess relevant endeavors across all campus units and divisions. As a member of the provost’s leadership team, Belichesky-Larson will report to Vice Provost David Sapp, dean of Graduate Education.

Belichesky-Larson previously served as associate dean of strategic student initiatives in the Division of Student Affairs, where she oversaw research and assessment, and student success, which includes the First-Year Experience, transfer programs, veteran programs, the Guardian Scholars, and parent and family programs. As part of her duties, Belichesky-Larson created a research and assessment infrastructure, systemizing student engagement data collection and streamlining data importing in an effort to enhance retention statistical modeling. In the past year, she developed data governance policies and procedures with the intention to decrease data silos, increase data access and minimize student survey fatigue.

Over the past 15 years, Belichesky-Larson has served   LMU’s students to remove barriers to their success and develop campus-wide initiatives that impact their retention, persistence, and graduation. As the chair of the Registration and Graduation Work Group, she led the creation of a sustainable student outreach infrastructure that continually identifies and addresses student barriers to course registration. In addition, Belichesky-Larson chaired the First-Year Registration Work Group to develop a virtual online registration experience for incoming LMU students. Her success in partnering with Enrollment Management, Academic Affairs, and Information Technology Services to create a process that addresses the needs of each college and school was a key factor in her new appointment.

Belichesky-Larson earned her Ed.D. in educational leadership for social justice from Loyola Marymount University, focusing her dissertation on the impact of co-educational living learning communities on women’s persistence in the sciences. She earned a M.Ed. in higher education and organizational change from UCLA and a M.A. in English literature and rhetoric and composition from LMU. She is also a graduate of the Ignatian Colleagues Program. Belichesky-Larson has taught courses at LMU in the English Department, first as a teaching fellow in the first-year English program, and then for eight years as a part-time faculty member, teaching college writing, poetry, literature, and drama. Most recently, she taught courses in the Ignatian Leadership Institute and in the doctoral program in LMU’s School of Education.

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