Dan Volchok
Assistant Dean of Student Success, Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Dan Volchok has nearly 50 years of Higher Education experience on both the Student Affairs and Academic Affairs sides of higher education. He is currently Assistant Dean of Student Success at the Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In this role he supports nearly 5,000 Master’s and PhD students studying in 57 graduate programs across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering and is responsible for most non-academic support services.
Dr. Volchok was previously the Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, where he was responsible for all student, faculty, and academic affairs within the school. He was previously Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Life at Northeastern University and Director of Graduate Program and Student Services at Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, and Dean of Students and VP for Student Development at Endicott College. Early in his career he worked at WebCT, consulting with faculty across the globe on their use of their online teaching platform. He published a book chapter on the utilization of WebCT’s Exemplary Course Project to improve student outcomes and assorted papers on the use of technology in higher education.
Dr. Volchok is also currently adjunct faculty in the Northeastern College of Professional Studies Graduate School of Education, where he teaches a variety of courses in the Master’s program, including Higher Education Law and Policy, and Supervision, as well as acting as Dissertation Chair for doctoral students in the EdD program.
He served on the regional advisory board for NASPA: Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education and has been active in both the Administrators in Graduate and Professional Student Services (AGAPSS) and Student Affairs Partnering with Academic Affairs (SAPAA) Knowledge Communities. He has presented at a variety of regional and national conferences and chaired the AGAPSS Pre-Conference twice. He was an 18-year elected representative to the Masconomet Regional District School Committee and currently sits on the Town of Boxford Finance Committee. He received a B.B.A. and M.B.A. from Ohio University and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, with a focus on Higher Education Administration.