National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Our Staff
Mary Stuart Hunter
| Title: | Interim Director and Senior Fellow |
| National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition | |
| Email: | stuarth@mailbox.sc.edu |
Mary Stuart Hunter is the Interim Director for the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and a senior fellow for University 101 Programs and the National Resource Center at the University of South Carolina. Prior to her retirement in July 2015, she was associate vice president and executive director, where she led an academic department with campus wide impact and national/international leadership influence.
During her 40-year career in higher education, Hunter taught first-year students, upper-level undergraduates, and graduate students, while the primary focus of her administrative work was in faculty and staff development designed to help educators improve student learning and program development. Her scholarship centers on various student transition points, academic advising, and faculty development. Her publications include co-editing Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second-Year Experience (2010) and The Senior Year: Culminating Experiences and Transitions (2012) and co-authoring The First-Year Seminar: Instructor Training and Development (2012). She was honored in May 2010 with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Queens University of Charlotte.