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Academic Advising

Rebecca Bliss, Assistant Director of Advising
Sophomore Class Dean

Education: Rebecca Bliss has an undergraduate degree in History from Brown University, and an M.A. in Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University.

Prior to moving to Carlisle, she worked for over five years at Dartmouth College, primarily at Dartmouth’s Tucker Foundation as the Director of Fellowships and Internships and as the Associate Director of Foundation Programs. Rebecca has also been a program officer at Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation in Washington, D.C., a program officer for the Corporation for National Service in their higher education/service-learning division, and was the Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs serving as first-year dean at Georgetown University.

Professional Interests:

  • working with students in transition
  • leadership development
  • women's issues, particularly as they pertain to undergraduate women
  • supporting and advising student athletes
  • international and domestic community service
  • diversity issues on campus
  • service-learning in higher education
  • fellowships and awards
  • directing the Engage the World Fellowship program
  • mentoring Dickinson's New York Posse VI

Presentations and Workshops:

  • networking
  • team building/ropes course leader
  • service-learning
  • community service

Open 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Daily
Dickinson College, PO Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013