Associate Dean of Students and Director of AccessibleNU
- Phone: 847-467-5530
- Email: jill.schneider@northwestern.edu
Jill Sieben-Schneider serves as the Associate Dean of Students and the Director of AccessibleNU (ANU) under the Division of Student Affairs. She is responsible for implementing the mission and vision of ANU through leadership, education, and outreach and serves in a leadership role in the Dean of Students Office where she provides crisis response and student support. Jill remains active at the national level with expertise in disability and assessment in higher education and strives to proactively implement best practices to ensure students with disabilities receive a level playing field when they arrive at Â鶹´«Ã½.
Jill serves as a reviewer on the editorial board for the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability (JPED) and was nominated by her peers to serve on the member board for the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS), where she represents the Association for Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD). She currently serves on the national AHEAD Board of Directors in an officer role and is the past-president for the Colorado/Wyoming AHEAD regional affiliate.
Before arriving at Â鶹´«Ã½, Jill served in a leadership role in the Disability Services unit under the Diversity and Equity division at the University of Colorado Boulder where she also served as an instructor in the higher education graduate program. Prior to the University of Colorado, she worked in the McBurney Disability Resource Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Disability Services Office at Ball State University. Jill holds a doctorate and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado Denver and a master’s degree from Ball State University. She continues to pursue various areas of learning with a project management certificate from the University of Chicago and an instructional design certificate from Georgetown University.