ERROL WIZDA

635 S. Burr Oak Ave.

Oregon, WI 53575
570-436-0765
Email: errol.wizda@gmail.com

SUMMARY: Experienced student advisor, mentor, counselor, and co-curricular programmer with skills
in facilitating dialogue and fostering collaborative relationships seeking opportunity to
utilize abilities to build socially responsible leaders.

SKILLS: STUDENT DEVELOPMENT

● Received training and education on various student development theories and have
infused many of them into student programming and initiatives.
● Create, facilitate, and assess student leadership training, retreats, and conferences.
● Connect learning and purpose into student service experiences.
● Engage students in identity development exercises and programming that promotes
growth in moral, cognitive, identity, and emotional development. A great portion of
my professional career has been focused on building students’ sense of self-efficacy.
● Utilize therapeutic background to establish relationships with students and advise on
goal development and achievement, educate on college success strategies, and
promote positive time and project management habits.

ESTABLISHING COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS

● Support classroom and course learning outcomes and produce co-curricular
programming that aligns with student learning initiatives.
● Develop relationships with numerous community partners like the YWCA, ACCESS
York, Planned Parenthood, LGBT Center of Central PA, and many local vendors.
● Establish relationships with many faculty and departments resulting in programming
and initiatives that are impactful and collaborative.
● Collaborate with numerous departments to create programming and implement
support strategies to increase both underrepresented and overall student retention.

DEVELOPING CULTURAL COMPETENCE

● Develop, conduct, and assess intercultural dialogues that engage students and staff in
discussion that promotes understanding, inclusivity, and empathy for other cultures.
● Recruit and foster connections between various demographics encouraging
engagement with each other and the institution. This can be seen through adult
learner focused events, involvement with identity-specific clubs, and programming
that encourages exploration and growth within one’s own sense of identity.
● Studied retention strategies for students of color where I analyzed educational
departments’ climate and recommended enhancements.
● Recruit and support diverse students through partnerships with HBCU leadership
conferences and by participating in STEM conferences aimed to support students
who are underrepresented in STEM.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
● Excel at event planning and coordination such as Welcome Week events,
professional speaker series, student research conferences, STEM and academic
success workshops, leadership retreats, social justice events, service learning
excursions, and many others.
● Administer multiple budgets, coordinate spending, and complete necessary
purchasing procedures for numerous organizations.
● Advise and empower student organizations to develop and facilitate programming
that meets the needs of the student body.
● Track and report data and manage processes for NIH training grant reporting
 TEACHING & ACADEMIC SUPPORT
● Monitor student academic success, maintain communication with academic advisors,
and collaboratively to provide academic coaching and promote student success
through programs like starfish.
● Utilize flipped classroom model and highly interactive pedagogical approaches to
engage learners.
● Implement informal assessments for students to reflect upon their learning and
processing styles.
● Coordinate peer mentoring program for incoming graduate students

PROGRAM ASSESSMENT AND SUCCESS

● Created and implemented a needs assessment, developed campus climate and
program climate instruments, and conducted qualitative interviews with faculty and
administrators.
● Conduct program assessments and enact improvements based on feedback.

COLLEGE TRANSITION
● Created and implemented comprehensive orientation program that involved student
ambassadors and faculty collaborations.
● Strategically coordinated programming so that it was impactful in developing
connections between new students and the institution..
● Focus on positively influencing a students’ on-boarding experience and enhancing
their sense of institutional fit by encouraging student involvement.
● Proficiently utilize social medical to market events and to positively impact students’
sense of connectedness to the institution.
● Coordinate graduate interview weekends with faculty, students, and staff

EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Master of Education May 2010
Area of Specialization: Higher Education/Student Affairs

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Arts May 2008
Area of Specialization: Letters, Arts, & Sciences/Social Sciences

ASSISTANTSHIPS: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst, MA

Oct 2009 – May 2010 Program Advisor/System Initiative Coordinator (Office of Fraternities and Sororities)

Sept 2009 – May 2010 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst, MA

Graduate Practicum (Office of Programs and Services for ALANA Students)

Jan 2009 – May 2009 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst, MA

Graduate Research Assistant (Educational Policy, Research, and Advocacy)

EXPERIENCE: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, Madison, WI

Feb 2020 - Present Graduate Program Coordinator (Genetics PhD Program)

Nov 2010 - Feb 2020 HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Lebanon/York, PA

Coordinator/Director of Student Life and Multicultural Programs/Recruiter

Aug 2015 – Dec 2019 HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, York, PA

Foundational Studies adjunct faculty
Dec 2010 – Jun 2012 ACCESS SERVICES, Orwigsburg, PA
Mobile Therapist/Behavioral Services Consultant

Summer 2009 SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM, Greenfield, MA

Summer Youth Counselor

Aug 2002 – Nov 2005 CHILDREN’S SERVICE CENTER, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Residential Coordinator (Bridgeview Residential Treatment Facility)

PRESENTATIONS: FACULTY OF THE FUTURE CONFERENCE 2015,

Bucks County Community College
Building Students’ Confidence, Community, and Critical Thinking:  The Creation and
Implementation of an Undergraduate Research Conference at Harrisburg Area
Community College

NACA SGA SUMMIT EAST 2015

Stockton University
Co-facilitation of Collaborative Programming Roundtable

HANOVER DIVERSITY SUMMIT 2016,

South Western High School
Explore Identity, Bias, and Oppression Through Dialogue 

HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CITE WORKSHOP 2017,

Harrisburg Area Community College - York
Using Dialogue to Engage Students in Difficult Conversations

HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS DAY SPRING 2017

Harrisburg Area Community College - York
Dialogue Exercises for the Classroom

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE LIBRARIES CONFERENCE 2017

Baltimore Convention Center
Poster Session Winner:
A Thin Red Line: A Multi-Campus Student and Faculty Collaboration About Censorship

CULTURE CON 2017

Susquehannock High School
Conversations on Intersectionality

LANCASTER LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: DIALOGUES ON RACISM 2017

Millersville University Ware Center
Dialogue on Structural Racism

HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUS DAY FALL 2017

Harrisburg Area Community College - York
What You Can Do: Engaging Men of Color in Your Classes

YORK LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: DIALOGUES ON RACISM 2017

York College of Pennsylvania
Black Spiderman and Insight on Identity
HONORS: CHILDREN’S SERVICE CENTER
● Official commendation for exceptional communicative abilities with parents.

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

● Inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for adult learners.
● Dean’s list four consecutive semesters.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

● Honorary inductee into Order of Omega, Greek honor society, for advising.

HACC
● Standing Ovation award for success in developing student leadership retreat.
● President’s Award for collaborative coordination of student research conference.