Meet The Team

As the Director of First-Year Experience and Programming for the office of Advising and First-Year Experience, Amanda oversees the department's First-Year Seminar courses and corresponding events; FYE events and programming; and the Common Experience programs content and events for incoming students, first-year seminar faculty, and the NKU Campus. Our programs highlight needed academic content for student success, different resources across campus, and student success through engagement and campus connection. Amanda currently serves as one of the twenty-six Faculty who teach University 101: Orientation to College and Beyond to incoming students. 

Amanda served as a student worker in the NKU First-Year Programs department starting in 2017. While in this department, she helped with engagement, programming, and content creation. Before returning to FYE, Amanda worked for the Institute for Health Innovation at NKU as the K-12 Program Coordinator. She designed programs that brought Faculty in the College of Health and Human Services and related health fields to students across the tri-state. Amanda returned in April of 2022 as the Engagement Coordinator and Common Experience Program Manager. She created successful Victorfest events for the department and designed content for Faculty using the Common Read book Weapons of Math Destruction. 

Amanda graduated from NKU in 2019 with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Studies and Anthropology. As an undergraduate, Amanda researched the burial practices of Iron Age bog bodies. She presented her findings at multiple conferences, in classrooms, and at a Scripps Howard Six@Six Lecture Series. As a graduate student, she focused on cultural communication and how individual life narratives influence our identity and reception of the world we live in. Amanda graduated from NKU with a Master of Arts in Communication and a Master of Arts Communication Teaching Certificate in 2022.

In her time, she loves the outdoors, traveling, listening to music, reading books, and being with her family and friends. She is from Owenton, KY, and now lives in Florence, KY, with her family.

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."– Maya Angelou.

Rose came to NKU from Thomas More College (now Thomas More University) in 2002. Between these two universities, she has had the pleasure of working with, getting to know, and helping students of all ages and from many different locations and countries since 1977. Although she is the assistant for the Advising & First-Year Experience (FYE) team, she also assists the UCAP (University Connect and Persist) office staff and visitors. Rose has been with the Advising and First-Year Experience team since 2021. ‘It is always exciting for me to see new students arriving at NKU – each with their own story and journey. I am glad to be in a position where I can help them along their way, hoping to make their experience at NKU the best possible!’