UAC Staff
Dawn Remmers Director of University Advising and Student Success
dremmers@uta.edu
Dawn became the Director of University Advising and Student Success in July 2005. She has worked at UTA since 1999, having worked in Interdisciplinary Studies and the Honors College as an advisor and as the Director of Student Success Programs. Dawn earned her PhD in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Animal Behavior and Neuroscience from Kansas State University in 1996.
Janette Keen Associate Director
keen@uta.edu
Janette has been at UTA since 1997. She has worked in University Advising, Student Success, and Counseling Services. A former student of Texas A&M University, she received her master’s in Student Affairs in Higher Education in 1993.
Morgan Jones Assistant Director
mjones@uta.edu
Morgan joined the UAC in June 2005. She graduated from Texas A&M University in May 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She then went on to the University of Texas at San Antonio and completed a Master of Arts in Counseling in May 2004. She loves sports, especially football, watching movies and reading.
Liz Hannabas Coordinator, Advisor Outreach
hannabas@uta.edu
Liz has worked at UT Arlington since 2004. She received her Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree from the University of North Texas. Liz was a member of the Advising Module for the campus MyMav implementation and now does MyMav training for Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Liz worked in the radio industry for ten years and has also worked in Marketing. She has three children – one who attends UT Arlington – and she loves swimming.
Gerrye Frantz Academic Advisor II
frantz@uta.edu
Gerrye earned her BA in Journalism from University of Texas Arlington. She lives in Arlington and has worked at UTA for 15 years. She has two children and enjoys reading, traveling, antiques and theater.
James Jones Academic Advisor II
jbjones@uta.edu
James joined the UAC staff after being an advisor in the UTA Honors College. He has a BBA/BA in Management Information Systems and Psychology, respectively, from The University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Sociocultural Anthropology from The University of Chicago. James is currently enrolled in the UTA School of Social Work. Research interests include social welfare and development in South Asia and student retention issues in higher education. Other interests are language (Spanish, Hindi/Urdu and Farsi), philosophy, and the social sciences. James welcomes discussion with students who may also have interests in these fields or who seek advice in preparation for graduate studies. He is a long-time fan of The Dallas Mavericks.
Victoria McWilliams Academic Advisor II
vmcw@uta.edu
Victoria came to us from the College of Education where she worked as an advisor for their department. Before working with future teachers, Victoria was a teacher herself. She taught regular and Pre-AP 7th grade Texas history in South Dallas. While completing her undergraduate work at Texas Woman’s University, Victoria majored in History and minored in English, psychology, and secondary teacher education. She was also very active in her University. She was president of Student Ambassadors, Advertising Chair for the Food Advisory Board, Student Orientation Leader, member of Campus Activities Board and a mentor to a FIG group. Currently, Victoria is working on her master’s degree in Social Work. She aspires to design and implement social services to students in need at Universities as well as evaluate existing services to make sure they are serving the needs of their clientele. Here in the UAC, Victoria is the lead advisor to the Coordinated Admission Program to UT-Austin.
Lynne Von Roeder Academic Advisor II
lvonroeder@uta.edu
Lynne joined the UAC in 2006. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from TCU in 1981 and her Masters of Education in Counseling from TCU in 2006. Lynne spent 17 years in the world of business, first owning her own restaurant and then in the world of corporate foodservice. During that time, she worked with a local Austin school on a grant project for underprivileged students. As a result of that she received a Presidential Commendation for Environmental Youth Education from Bill Clinton in 1995. This caused Lynne to further investigate the world of education and she began teaching at a school for students with learning differences in 1997. When the school decided to add a high school, she went back to TCU to get her masters in educational counseling. She served as the high school college and career counselor until May of 2005. After her graduate internship in the Career Services Center at TCU, she decided to pursue advising and counseling in the higher education arena. Lynne now serves as the lead advisor working with students in exploring and changing majors. She has a 21 year old son who is a student at Texas Tech and she loves to read, garden and travel.
Elizabeth Myller Academic Advisor I
emyller@uta.edu
Elizabeth is originally from Fort Worth, Texas. She attended college at Texas Tech University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in English. Throughout college, she worked on campus in the university bookstore as well as interned for NBC in Lubbock. Elizabeth is a member of Alpha Chi Omega and held the Vice President Collegiate Recruitment Information Chair her junior-senior year of college. She and her husband were high school sweethearts and attended college together at Texas Tech. They were married in November 2007 and have an adorable son (miniature schnauzer) named Bailey. Elizabeth enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, and is currently attempting to learn to cook. She plans on going back to school for her Master’s Degree in the near future.
Misty Underwood Academic Advisor I
mistyunderwood@uta.edu
Misty completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of North Texas in 2004 and her Master of Education in Counseling at Texas Tech University in 2006. Misty has experience working for Weatherford College Upward Bound and Lubbock ISD. Misty also completed several counseling internships during her Master’s: Buckner Children’s Home, Lubbock Regional MHMR Sunrise Canyon and the Texas Tech University Student Counseling Center. Her interests include traveling to the Middle East, studying Farsi, and researching salient issues relating to student development in Higher Education. Misty one day plans to pursue a Ph.D.
Leigh A. Young Administrative Assistant
leiyoung@uta.edu
Leigh has two daughters (one who has graduated from college and the other who is a senior in college) and a husband working on his master’s. Not wanting to be left out, she decided if she wasn’t attending college she could at least work at one. She enjoys college basketball, reading, gardening (even though she says she is a terrible gardener), singing, and horseback riding. Her favorite word is “possibilities”. She loves to look for the possibilities in things, which means that she’s the crazy person taking other people’s “junk” and trying to do something tricky with it. Leigh will return to student life in the Fall 2006 as she begins to take courses again at UT Arlington to earn a degree in Sociology.
David Sutton Support Specialist II
drsutton@uta.edu
David has worked on campus for going on 10 years. He moved up to the University Advising Center from the Undergraduate Admissions Office in August of 2007. He knows quite a bit about the inner workings of the University and has friends in many different departments. His interests are indie music, games of chance, reading fiction and movies. He has always been fascinated with ancient cultures, so games, movies or books pertaining to past civilizations are where he finds the most enjoyment. David is currently still working on his Bachelor’s in Anthropology here at UTA.