TASNEEM MOHAMED
Oakland,CA
Summary
Adaptable Academic Advisor with 5+ years of experience delivering comprehensive academic collegiate advising and supportive services to diverse student populations. Expert using educational and career counseling techniques to prioritize caseload and serve multiple groups of students. Flexible mentor, individualizing intervention strategies and activities for supportive services to serve students; especially those at-risk academically. Dedicated and skilled higher education professional with a broad range of experience in the education, mental health, and social services fields. Superior program management, data evaluation, and communication skills. Serviced students of diverse ethnic, gender and sexual identity, socioeconomic backgrounds and nontraditional students, as well as homeless and formerly incarcerated students. Designed and facilitated student workshops and support groups focused on intersectional dynamics and identities, and creating a safe space for students within the LGBTQiA+ community. Experience working with first generation, TRIO and Bridge students, and coordinating efforts for student success with these programs. Collaborated with campus stakeholders, as part of organizational committees, in creating and designing diversity, equity and inclusion policy and equitable hiring practices.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
NCBI Trainer/Facilitator
National Coalition Building Institute International
08.2022 - Current
- Facilitate diversity and inclusion workshops for corporate and higher education organization and K-12 students.
- Create curriculum for and diversity and inclusion, anti-bias and anti-bullying curriculum for adults in academic and corporate settings.
- Present anti-racism and anti-bias curriculum and guide attendees through group work, discussions, and feedback sessions.
- Increase attendees knowledge of gender identity, racial and equity issues within their organization and how to institute bystander/upstander culture.
- Monitored participant workflow and behaviors throughout training process.
Equity Advocate
California State University
10.2021 - Current
- Ensure equitable recruitment processes for all identities by promoting the most comprehensive and inclusive candidate search.
- Actively engage in each stage of the search and recruitment process, partnering with UP to ensure equitable, inclusive, and open recruitment consistent with AAP utilization goals.
- Assist hiring committees in self-scrutiny about potential (implicit) biases or assumptions that detract from an objective assessment of the knowledge, skills, and experiences of applicants.
- Collaborate with hiring teams, and advise Hiring Managers, to develop evaluation tools for established criteria and draft questions for candidates throughout selection process.
Academic Advisor
California State University
04.2019 - Current
- Provide individualized academic and success/retention advisement for undergraduate students, on a reoccurring basis, at an HSI/MSI University; serving Hispanic, historically underserved and underrepresented minoritized students.
- Provide Student Success intervention and workshop facilitation for at-risk students with SAP or academic probation status.
- Advise students about course selection, scheduling, satisfactory academic progress requirements, and satisfactory program progress requirements for graduation, answer student inquiries, resolve issues related to curriculum and course prerequisites.
- Facilitate new student orientations and provide campus and community resource referrals; food, housing, childcare, mental health. to maintain educational progress.
- Maintain student database and electronic records for each student contact, for a caseload of 350-400 students.
- Identify and support students academically at-risk or on academic probation and provide advising and support in regaining satisfactory academic status.
- Review confidential academic transcripts and evaluations and make recommendations of appropriate coursework pursuant to the students' academic, personal and professional goals.
- Manage the collection, compilation and dissemination of information about majors, programs and services in various disciplines.
- Maintain executive communications across departments, attend meetings in all the major departments to coordinate efforts and advocate for student interests; especially for that of the ethnically diverse and LQGBTQIA+ community on campus.
Graduate Retention Advisor
Alabama State University
01.2018 - 11.2018
- Provided individualized academic and retention advisement for graduate students, including assistance with: course selection, scheduling, educational planning, satisfactory academic progress requirements, financial aid eligibility, satisfactory program progress requirements, and progress towards graduation.
- Supported primarily African American students from minoritized and diverse backgrounds including first generation, student-parents, immigrant and the LQGBTQIA+ community.
- Identified and supported students academically at-risk or on academic probation, to provide additional advising and support in regaining satisfactory academic status.
- Implemented education program and strategies that were appropriate to the needs of graduate students and for students who are first in their families to attend college, come from historically low-income populations and regions, and under-resourced schools or communities.
- Collaborated with appropriate campus resources to develop and implement study skills, career development, academic success and personal development opportunities that increase students' academic skills, professional growth and success.
- Maintained appropriate documentation of services provided and managed electronic student files for assigned caseload per Title III requirements.
- Developed and presented workshops to undergraduate and graduate students to address academic obstacles and life skills.
Graduate Assistant
Alabama State University
08.2016 - 12.2017
- Provided individualized academic and student success advisement for graduate students.
- Identified and advised students academically at-risk or on academic probation and supported them in regaining satisfactory academic status
- Implemented educational programs and strategies that are appropriate to the needs of graduate students and for students who are first in their families to attend college, or come from low-income populations and regions, and under-resourced schools and communities
- Previously taught: OR130 – Orientation to Study Skills course
Education
Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership
California State University – Fresno
05.2023
Master of Science - Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Alabama State University
12.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of California - Davis
Davis, CASkills
- Excellent Student Rapport
- Inclusion HR Strategy
- Planning & Coordination
- Project Implementation
- Training curriculum & material development
- Data Collection, Evaluation & Analysis
- Diversity Workshop Facilitation
- Mental Health
- Higher Education Policy
Affiliations
- National Association of Diversity Officers in HIgher Education 2022 - present
- National Academic Advising Association 2019 - present
- American Counseling Association - Graduate Student Affiliate 2015 - Present
Timeline
NCBI Trainer/Facilitator
National Coalition Building Institute International
08.2022 - Current
Equity Advocate
California State University
10.2021 - Current
Academic Advisor
California State University
04.2019 - Current
Graduate Retention Advisor
Alabama State University
01.2018 - 11.2018
Graduate Assistant
Alabama State University
08.2016 - 12.2017
Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership
California State University – Fresno
Master of Science - Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Alabama State University
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of California - Davis
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