Marian Anderson
Las Vegas
Summary
Dedicated to higher education with over 15 years of experience, building trust and rapport with students, faculty, staff, and on- and off-campus relations. Providing excellent customer service for the department, students, professional staff, and faculty. Knowledge of university, department policies, and procedures.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Capstone Administrative Assistant
Touro University - School of Occupational Therapy
Henderson
09.2023 - 06.2025
- Evaluate and review students' applications for program admission.
- Create and maintain student databases, and export and update student records.
- Review transcripts, GPA, evaluation data, and letters.
- Assist with the admission interview process, setting up interview time slots, Zoom, and in-person interviews.
- Assist the Capstone Coordinator with 3rd and 4th-year students' capstone experience.
- Obtain and schedule Capstone placements
- Work with clinical sites and non-clinical sites for placement and evaluations.
- Scan and upload student-required documents, and manage databases for 3rd and 4th-year students' clinical and non-clinical hours.
- Record keeping of site mentors' data.
- Manage the capstone budget and ordering.
- Contributed to event planning for departmental seminars and outreach activities.
Administrative Assistant IV
UNLV School of Life Science
Las Vegas
07.2017 - 08.2020
- Oversee day-to-day operations, manage staff, and student workers.
- Respond to all inquiries, maintain, and address email responses in various department emails.
- Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze, and report on performance and sales data.
- Organize and maintain graduate student files, and generate and compile data in various SIS systems.
- Route and track documents routed to signature appointees, and review for accuracy and final updates.
- Review staff and student work for final approval.
- Arrange and attend various on-campus meetings.
- Budget management for PTIs, graduate assistants, federal work-study, gift accounts, and working with faculty courses.
- Process payments and documents, such as invoices, journal vouchers, employee reimbursements, and statements.
- Assist students with needs or questions.
- Manage and generate the department's financial budget for review by senior faculty and administrators.
Administrative Assistant IV
UNLV College of Education
Las Vegas
06.2017 - 07.2019
- Operational support for the department chair, providing high-level administrative assistance, calendar and travel management, event planning, and serving as a liaison in the absence of the Chair.
- Assist with special projects.
- Research and gather the necessary paperwork.
- Serve as the primary contact for the graduate application process and admission into the program.
- Coordinating graduate interviews, managing applications, and overseeing the evaluation process for graduate program admissions.
- Calculating and recording GPA, GRE scores, and evaluators' metrics.
- Create teaching and research contracts, and assign teaching cost per credit using allocated teaching funds.
- Coordinate all graduate affairs, oversee all new and existing graduate files, assign graduate students' placement track documents, and upload them to the database.
- Inform graduate students of missing and required documents, and upload documents into the student information system.
- Assist students with enrollment issues, remove department holds, adding and dropping students.
- Schedule academic courses, labs, and discussions, and submit curriculum and description changes.
- Notify the student of registration dates and deadlines.
- Facilitate student & faculty system training
Administrative Assistant III
UNLV School of Life Science
Las Vegas
08.2010 - 06.2017
- Create Fall and Spring undergraduate and graduate courses, and lab schedule.
- Comply with the teaching request, and assign undergraduate and graduate courses.
- Assist curriculum coordinators with changes, assigning new courses, and prerequisites.
- Complying data for enrollment numbers, make changes to enrollment.
- Assign all teaching to individuals or groups within the department.
- Manage and maintain SIS, generate reports to review accuracy.
- Design and update student and faculty instructional guides.
Administrative Assistant II
UNLV School of Nursing
Las Vegas
05.2005 - 04.2010
- Coordinated schedules for nursing faculty and staff meetings.
- Managed communication between students and faculty regarding course materials.
- Organized student records and maintained confidentiality of sensitive information.
- Supported event planning for nursing school activities and community outreach programs.
Education
High School Diploma - General Education
John F Kenndy High School
Richmond, CA06-2019
Skills
- Touro One
- Banner
- WebAdmit
- PeopleSoft
- Workday
- Canvas
- Envoy
- Exxat (Dash and Prism)
- SalesForce
- E*Value
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Google Workspace
- Google Docs
- Docusign
- Zoom
- Microsoft Teams
- Database management
Timeline
Capstone Administrative Assistant
Touro University - School of Occupational Therapy
09.2023 - 06.2025
Administrative Assistant IV
UNLV School of Life Science
07.2017 - 08.2020
Administrative Assistant IV
UNLV College of Education
06.2017 - 07.2019
Administrative Assistant III
UNLV School of Life Science
08.2010 - 06.2017
Administrative Assistant II
UNLV School of Nursing
05.2005 - 04.2010
High School Diploma - General Education
John F Kenndy High School
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