Normandale Community College has named Jeremy McNamara its Director of Education Pathways.
Through this role, McNamara will oversee and manage all aspects of the college’s matriculation to education programs, including SpedUP and Sirtify®. He will also plan, organize, lead, develop, implement, and maintain cohort programs to ensure student success, and collaborate with the division dean and education program faculty to develop secondary-postsecondary college and career pathways in special and elementary education.
“I am very excited to be in this role,” said McNamara. “During my time at Normandale, I have been part of helping students in every part of their academic journey from getting started at the college, to understanding Normandale’s resources and developing success plans, and guiding students through the process to transfer or go into the workforce. This role allows me to use all of those collective experiences to build on the great things that are being done in our education department. Normandale is a leader in the state in education among two-year colleges, and I am looking forward to continuing to build on all of the successes we have in concurrent enrollment, our education courses, SpedUP, and Sirtify®.”
McNamara has inspired and guided Normandale students to successful outcomes for over 14 years. He has been a PSEO (Postsecondary Enrollment Options) Academic Advisor, IREPO (Institutional Resilience and Expanded Postsecondary Opportunity) Project Director/Dual Enrollment Liaison, Student Services Coach, Health Science Program Liaison and an Admissions Representative.
In the academic advisor role, McNamara served as one of the college’s experts in PSEO and Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for the Advising, Counseling and Career Center department. He was also an assigned advisor for PSEO students, led new PSEO student webinar orientations, and played a big role in outreach initiatives to help at-risk identified students by early-alert warnings.
Normandale Community College names Jeremy McNamara as Director of Education Pathways
He managed all aspects of the IREPO Grant, which was designed to identify and implement improvements to the support and processes of dual enrollment students, while also focusing on growing and maintaining strong relationships with local high school districts and understanding the needs and challenges of dual enrolled students.
McNamara was a founding member of Normandale’s new Student Services Department from 2020-2022 as a Student Services Coach, and was a Health Science Program Liaison for students in Dental Hygiene, Exercise Science, Health Sciences, Nursing and Public Health majors for over five years, and started his time at Normandale as an Admissions Representative.
He received his MBA at Metropolitan State University and his bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
This spring semester, Normandale has three Introduction to Education sections of 30 students that are full or nearly full. Normandale’s Sirtify® program, whose mission is to support Black, African American and African men into elementary and secondary pathways, has over 20 students in the program. SpedUP, which is to recruit and support BIPOC students as they pursue the first two years of Special Education degree, has over 20 students in the program. Normandale also has students in nine different high school districts taking concurrent enrollment Education classes in high schools around the Twin Cities.
For more information on the Education program you can go to Normandale’s Education Program webpage, Special Education webpage, Sirtify® webpage, and SpedUp webpage.
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