OSAS Staff
Jan Boyd, GSA Coordinator
Jan is the primary staff resource for the School's Graduate Student Assistants. She supervises and coordinates the GSA Crew, a pool of graduate students who assist iSchool faculty with administrative and course support in response to faculty needs.
Jayson Curry, Program Assistant, Informatics
Jayson provides primary support in the Office of Student and Academic Services in all areas related to the Informatics program, including promotion, recruitment, event-planning, records management, and academic support and student services. He also works closely with other OSAS staff to provide general support for the School's other degree programs.
Dowell Eugenio, Informatics Academic Advisor
Dowell is the Academic Advisor for the Informatics program, working directly with Informatics students. His interactions include serving as the initial point of contact for disseminating information to prospective Informatics applicants, providing general academic advising to current Informatics students, and assisting in various programs for the benefit of Informatics students.
Jenny coordinates admissions for the School's academic programs. This includes working closely with the UW Graduate School to ensure successful completion of applications, especially for international students. Jenny also works on recruitment and outreach, including representing the iSchool at conferences.
Kath provides primary support in the Office of Student and Academic Services in all areas related to the MSIM and PhD programs, including promotion, recruitment, event-planning, records management, and academic support and student services. She also works closely with other OSAS staff to provide general support for the School's other degree programs.
Cris Mesling, Academics Administrator
With the Associate Dean for Academics, Cris oversees the coordination and management of all our academic programs as well as the administration of OSAS. She maintains the academic policies and procedures of the School and works with the Associate Dean and program chairs in curricular planning.
As Director of Student Services, Wendie manages all aspects of student services for the School's undergraduate and graduate programs (Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D.). This includes recruitment/marketing, admissions, orientations, fieldwork, academic progress, graduation and basic troubleshooting, as well as developing policy and procedural revisions.
Marie is the Academic Advisor for the MLIS program, working directly with both residential and online students. Her interactions include serving as the initial point of contact for disseminating information to prospective MLIS applicants, providing general academic advising to current residential and online students, and assisting in various programs for the benefit of MLIS students. Marie also coordinates the administrative aspects of the Directed Fieldwork (DFW) program, working alongside the DFW Faculty Coordinator, Lorraine Bruce, and the advisor to the Law MLIS students, Penny Hazelton.
Matthew Saxton, Associate Dean for Academics
In his role as Associate Dean for Academics, Matt serves as the chief academic officer of the School. He has general oversight of the School's academic mission, including academic and curricular planning, policy matters, student services, scheduling, academic conduct and faculty development.
Sharon provides primary support to the MLIS program. Sharon coordinates the degree audit and portfolio process for the MLIS students, in addition to providing general support to the program. She also coordinates across programs all textbook orders, course evaluations, and grade sheets.
Carmen constructs the schedule for all programs on a quarterly basis. Additionally, she works with both UW Educational Outreach and the Registrar's office and handles all matters relating to class scheduling, curriculum changes, and classroom assignments for the iSchool.
Grace Whiteaker, Online Learning Administrator
Grace is the primary contact for faculty and staff regarding online or hybrid course development and design at the Information School. She also works with students learning to use course communication and presentation tools.
Kathy Wong, MSIM Academic Advisor
Kathy is the Academic Advisor for the MSIM program, working directly with both Day MSIM and Executive MSIM students. Her interactions include serving as the initial point of contact for disseminating information to prospective MSIM applicants, providing general academic advising to current MSIM students, and assisting in various programs for the benefit of MSIM students. Kathy also coordinates the administrative aspects of the MSIM Internship program.