Andrea Conklin Bueschel

Andrea Conklin Bueschel serves as Senior Vice President for Administration and Chief of Staff at Rutgers University. In this role, she oversees the operations of the President’s Office and various administrative offices, while playing a critical role in the coordination of the university-wide offices. She is also a member of the faculty in the Graduate School of Education.

Andrea most recently served as Associate Provost for Strategy and Policy at Northwestern University, where she was also a lecturer at Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy, teaching a course on Higher Education Policy in the master’s in higher education program. Prior to that, she was Associate Vice President at the Spencer Foundation; has been a research scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; was managing director for an educational consulting firm; has conducted program evaluations for non-profits, and has held various administrative posts in higher education. Recent publications include chapters in Changing the Conversation in Higher Education (edited by R. Thompson) and Cases of Teachers’ Data Use (edited by H. Fives and N. Barnes), and special issues on data use for Teachers College Record and American Journal of Education (co-edited with Cynthia Coburn).

Andrea’s bachelor's degree from Bates is in philosophy, and she holds master’s degrees in higher education and sociology and a Ph.D. in education policy from Stanford University.