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Evan Spencer
Senior Academic Advisor with experience in degree planning, academic policy, student case management, and graduation readiness. Practical work includes Academic advising, Degree audit, Student case management, Academic policy.
Experience
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
Senior Academic Advisor
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, reviewed degree audits with graduate students and mapped remaining requirements, prerequisites, and registration timing; gave each student a documented path to the next academic milestone.
- With responsibility for the review standard, interpreted academic policies with program directors and recorded approved exceptions with scope and expiration dates; prevented one-off decisions from becoming undocumented precedent.
- As workstream lead, triaged advising cases by registration risk, funding deadlines, and graduation impact; moved time-sensitive student issues to the right faculty or administrative owner earlier.
- Compared a student’s transcript with degree requirements and prerequisite sequences, documented an achievable course plan, and referred financial or wellbeing concerns to the appropriate service.
- Owned an academic-advising case review using registration records and academic policies, resolved a prerequisite mismatch and completed a verified study plan with the student.
- Published student communication using recurring advising questions, reduced incomplete registration requests by 24% during the next enrollment period.
Temple University
Philadelphia · United States
Academic Advisor
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Audited graduation-readiness records against approved programs of study and unresolved holds; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, surfaced missing decisions before final graduation clearance.
- Prepared an individual support plan from observed learning needs, agreed the next review with the learner or family, and checked progress using the same recorded criteria.
- Compared observations across different activities before drawing a conclusion about a learner’s needs. Adapted the support approach with the teaching team and recorded the learner’s response at the next review.
Selected project
Academic Advisor — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Triaged advising cases by registration risk, funding deadlines, and graduation impact; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Built an anonymized learning-support scenario with explicit starting needs and an observation plan; prepared accessible materials and checked whether the activity actually exercised the intended learning objective.
- Prepared a follow-up record distinguishing observed progress from an adult’s interpretation, tested the guidance with a different learner scenario, and revised instructions that assumed knowledge not yet demonstrated.
- Owned the independent lesson trial using observable learning criteria, resolved an ambiguous instruction and completed revised practice materials after a peer walkthrough.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.A. Sociology
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Social research methods, social stratification, sociology of education, statistics
Skills
Role expertise
Academic advising · Degree audit · Student case management · Academic policy · Student information systems
Publications
- Published a personal teaching reflection using the practice observation log, explaining differentiated instructions, feedback choices and the limits of a small classroom exercise.


