Oksana Hagerty

Dr. Oksana Hagerty serves as the Dean of the Center for Student Success at Beacon College. The Center is the home of seventeen learning specialists serving the individualized academic support needs of students at three levels: freshman, sophomore, and junior/senior. The mission of the Center for Student Success is to create meaningful and sustainable academic progress by helping students meet the standards of personal independence and responsibility.

With a Ph.D. in Educational and Developmental Psychology as well as a post-doctoral certificate in Applied Behavioral Analysis, she specializes in academic support, cognitive abilities, and learning disabilities interventions. She joined Beacon in 2014 as a learning specialist and academic advisor and transitioned to the leadership role in the Center in 2020.

During her time at Beacon, Dr. Oksana Hagerty has also taught classes in education and participated in a range of programs from the first Summer for Success in 2015 to the most recent coaching certificate offering commissioned by the Sharjah Center for Learning Difficulties in the UAE.

Dr. Hagerty is a frequent contributor to professional and popular outlets in the areas of student performance management, learning and attention issues, as well as developmental perspectives on education. She is the author of twenty scholarly publications in three languages.