Jill Geisler Wheeler Named to Fulbright Honors Post
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jill Geisler Wheeler has been named as assistant director for the honors program in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
A native of Brinkley, Ark., Geisler Wheeler came to Fayetteville in the fall of 1999 as a freshman at the university. After graduating with a bachelor of science in business administration from the Sam M. Walton College of Business, she worked in the university’s office of admissions and the advising center for Fulbright College.
“Jill is a phenomenal adviser,” said professor Sidney Burris, director of the Fulbright College honors program. “She’s been honing that skill for more than five years in the Fulbright advising center. Add to that her facility with social media and her ideas about how they can implement some of our most important goals, and the decision to offer Jill the job was an easy one. We're lucky to have her on board.”
Duties of the assistant director include serving as a liaison to the Fulbright College faculty, partnering with the Honors College to enhance students’ honors experience, assisting with oversight of the Sturgis Fellowship Program and working with the office of study abroad to select scholarship recipients.
“I’ve always enjoyed working with students as they discover their passions,” Geisler Wheeler said. “Now I’ll get to help them figure out how their honors experience can turn those passions into action.”
Geisler Wheeler is a member of the Arkansas Academic Advising Network and National Academic Advising Counsel. In addition to her bachelor of science, she also earned a master of education in higher education and a master of science in counselor education from the College of Education and Health Professions.
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