ITHACA, N.Y. – Dr. Carmen Rogers, who brings extensive experience in student development and academic services, has been named The Andrew '78 and Margaret Paul Assistant Director of Athletics for Student Services at Cornell. She will move across campus after spending the last two years as the Associate Director for Advising and Student Development at the School of Hotel Administration.
 
In her role at the Hotel School, Rogers advised students in the development of their academic action plans in Cornell's nationally renowned Hotel School. She was instrumental in supplementing and providing support to the school's faculty advisers in the course offerings and the curriculum requirements and coordinated support for students in need. She served as the school's representative to the Office of Student Disability Services, identified and selected scholarship recipients of the Learning Strategies Center and managed the Higher Education Opportunity Program (H/EOP). Rogers also planned and coordinated multicultural student mentoring, programming and other events.
 
Prior to her time in Ithaca, Rogers served as Director of Academic Services and Director of the Academic Support Programs and Services Center (ASPSC) in the Department of Athletics at New Mexico State University. She managed the academic progress and eligibility of 500 student-athletes, assessed the eligibility of incoming recruits and ensured institutional academic compliance with NCAA rules. She worked directly with the football, men's and women's basketball and volleyball programs and oversaw a staff of eight that made up the ASPSC. Her role in assisting student-athletes allowed her to conceptualize, develop and implement programming that enhanced their professional, personal and social development.
 
Rogers understands the rigors and demands on a Division I athlete after spending four years on the Bethune-Cookman softball team before graduating in 2002 with a degree in Computer Information Systems. She then went on to receive a master's degree in Sports Management at Robert Morris and a doctorate in Human Resource and Workforce Development from Arkansas. Her two years at Robert Morris came while serving as a compliance and student services graduate assistant. She got her first taste of working in college athletics as an undergraduate, working for a year as a compliance assistant at her alma mater. In addition to her degrees, Rogers holds certifications in organization leadership from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and in adult career pathways from the National Career Pathways Network.
 
Rogers' varied background in education and experience with Cornell's mission will also allow her to navigate the school's seven colleges and the university's vast student resource structure. She has been a program adviser, a lecturer and a grant administrator at various colleges and universities. Rogers managed a multi-million-dollar U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Professions Opportunity Grant at Union County College and a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Education Title V grant at Mercy College. She also spent three years as Vice-President of Operations at the Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council.
 
A published researcher, Rogers has joined in papers on hazing and organizational commitment, and volunteer management. She has presented at numerous conferences and has taught classes at Rutgers, Arkansas and Texas-El Paso.
 
Rogers is a member of the National Association of Academic Advising (NACADA) and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and has held memberships in the National Association of Advisers for Athletics (N4A) and the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association (MOAA), among others. She continues to serve in a number of service roles, including currently as President of the Bethune-Cookman School of Hospitality Advisory Board and as Treasurer of the Ithaca Alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Public Service Sorority.
 
Carmen and her husband Sean, an assistant professor in the Hotel School, have a son Jackson (8) and daughter Olivia (2) and reside in Ithaca.