Jim Gieser

Born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, Jim has also lived in Amsterdam, Ethiopia, Germany, and South Africa. Jim earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at Wheaton College (IL), after which he taught at an international high school in southern Germany for two years. Upon his return to the U.S. he served as an undergraduate admissions counselor at Wheaton College and completed an M.A. in Religious Studies (Theology) at Wheaton’s Graduate School. More recently, Jim spent two years in South Africa, where he completed an M.Phil in Higher Education Studies at the University of Cape Town and worked with short-term international programs at the university.

Jim is currently in his first year of Ph.D. studies in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Indiana University.

 

Job Responsibilities
Admissions and college choice, the socialization processes present within academia, comparative education including study-abroad programs and the first-year transition experiences of international students and ex-pats to American college life, and the relationship between public, institutional self-representations and actual campus realities.

Email: NSSETM1@indiana.edu