Dr. Julie Tetley
Chief, Academic Advising and First-year Programs / Assistant Professor, Behavioral Sciences
Bio
Dr. Julie Tetley is Chief of Academic Advising and First-Year Programs at the U.S. Air Force Academy, an assistant professor of Behavioral Sciences, and academic administrator in the Office of Student Academic Affairs & Academy Registrar. She manages the delivery of all academic advising for undeclared cadets and leads the development and administration of first-year college transition programs.
Dr. Tetley earned her doctorate at George Washington University where she authored her dissertation entitled “An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students.” Her other research interests include Mindset, Grit, effective learning strategies, critical thinking, and underprepared college students’ success and engagement. Dr. Tetley has more than 20 years of experience teaching and advising and has given numerous presentations focused on a variety of positive and educational psychology constructs, as well as college student development, retention, and success at the local, state, national and international level.
School of Education and Human Development
Dissertation: An Investigation of Self-Authorship, Hope, and Meaning in Life among Second-year College Students.
Education
Doctorate of Education, School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University, Washington, DC. (2010)
Master of Arts, Secondary Education (Graduated with honors), Marymount University, Virginia (1994)
Bachelor of Science, Psychobiology, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California-Riverside (1993)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Chief of Academic Advising and First-Year Programs, U.S. Air Force Academy (2010-present)
Director of First-Year and Sophomore Studies and Advising, The Colorado College-Colorado Springs (2003-2010)
Assistant Dean for Student Retention, Instructor, Averett University, Virginia (2000-2003)
Certified Biology and Chemistry Instructor, Advanced Placement Biology Instructor, James Madison High School, Fairfax County Public Schools-Vienna, Virginia, (1994-2000)
Honors & Awards
Martinson Award for Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2016-2017)
Outstanding Academy Educator Award, Dean’s Staff (2015)
U.S. Air Force Academy Critical Thinking Outcome Team Lead (2015-2017)
National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), National Outstanding Academic Advising Program Award (2014)
National Academic Advising Commission Chair, Small Colleges and Universities (2006-2008)
Member, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) (2005-present)
Research and Scholarly Interests
Mindset
Grit
Effective Learning Strategies
Hope
Meaning in Life
Self-authorship
Critical Thinking
Second-year College Students
Publications
Tetley, J., Chan, E., & Tobolowsky, B. F. (2009). Designing and Implementing New Initiatives for Sophomores. In J. N. Gardner, M. S. Hunter, & B. F. Tobolowsky (Eds). Helping sophomores succeed: Understanding and improving the second-year experience. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Tetley Stockenberg, J. (2007). The sophomore jump program at Colorado College. In B. F. Tobolowsky & B. E. Cox (Eds.), Shedding light on sophomores: An exploration of the second college year (Monograph, No. 17, pp. 63-73). Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-year Experience & Students in Transition.
Tetley, J. (2010). An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Online. (UMI No. 3389402).
Ennis-McMillan, M.C., Ammirati, T., Rossi-Reder, A., Tetley, J., & Thacker, R. (2011). Engaging Sophomore Students with Liberal Learning: Focused Exploration through Academic Advising. White Paper: Teagle Foundation Initiative, “Fresh Thinking for Liberal Education: Knowledge and Know-How for Student Learning.”
Tetley, J. (2010). An Exploratory Investigation of Self-Authorship, Hope, and Meaning in Life Among Second-year College Students. Paper presented at the Association of for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Indianapolis, IN, November, 2010.
Swayze, S. & Tetley, J. (2010). Gender differences in First-year Students’ Views of Self: Hope, Meaning in Life, and Self-Authorship. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO, March-April.
Significant Scholarly Presentations:
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Calgary, CA, October 2017, Concurrent Session, “Course Redesign to Shift Student Mindset and Increase Identification of Effective Learning Strategies.”
Utah Valley University, Teaching-4-Learning Conference, March 2017, Concurrent Session, “Effect of Mindset and Identification of Effective Learning Strategies Interventions.”
Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2017. Poster Presentation: “Intervention in Learning Strategies 101: Effect of Mindset and Identification of Effective Learning Strategies.” Recognized for outstanding empirical research on teaching, RMPA Best Teaching Poster Award.
National Resource Center for the First-year Experience and Students in Transition, National Conference on Students in Transition, October, 2016.
Concurrent presentation: “Increasing Resiliency in Second-Year College Students.”
National Resource Center: Institute on Sophomore Student Success. Selected as one of 7 faculty facilitators; 3-day institute. April 2016.
NACADA National Conference, October 2015, Las Vegas, NV. Pre-Conference Presentation: “Designing advising for second-year students.” Concurrent Presentation: “Promoting Self-Authorship through Intentionally Designed Academic Advising Learning Activities”
Noel-Levitz, National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing, and Retention, July 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Invited presentation: “The Sophomore Slump: Strategies for Supporting and Retaining Second-year Students.”
USAFA SoTL Forum. November, 2016 & 2017. Poster Presentations: “Intervention in Learning Strategies 101: Effect of Mindset and Identification of Effective Learning Strategies.” Awarded Most Likely to Have an Impact at USAFA. “Year 2 Replication & Extension: Mindset, Identification of Effective Learning Strategies, and GRIT”