Jennifer Rosales serves as Dartmouth’s Senior Vice President for Community and Campus Life and Chief Student Affairs Officer. As Senior Vice President, she leads the college’s community-building strategy and provides oversight for key campus organizations, including Civic Expression, Engagement, and Learning; the Native American Program; Outdoor Programs; the Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL); the Office of Community Engagement; Dartmouth Dialogues and the William Jewett Tucker Center.

In her capacity as Chief Student Affairs Officer, Jennifer convenes student affairs deans across the institution to ensure a cohesive and collaborative approach to the student experience. She provides strategic guidance on student-related issues, directs institutional communications concerning student life, and oversees the development and implementation of campus-wide policies governing student organizations and conduct across all schools.

She also chairs committees and work groups dedicated to enhancing student life and supporting holistic student development. Central to her leadership is a commitment to fostering an inclusive campus environment, with a particular focus on strengthening the integration of Dartmouth’s graduate students into the broader campus community.

Her leadership is driven by a commitment to creating a consistent, outstanding experience for all Dartmouth students, one that supports learning, personal growth, and meaningful connections within the larger Dartmouth community.

Jennifer previously served as the inaugural director of the Center for Engaged Pedagogy at Barnard College, and before that, as director of research and evaluation at the Center for Social Justice at Georgetown University. She served as assistant professor of practice in education at Barnard and as an adjunct professor in the Program on Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown. She earned her PhD in the School of Cinematic Arts, Division of Critical Studies, at the University of Southern California.

Immediately before coming to Dartmouth, Jennifer served as vice president for inclusion and engaged learning and chief diversity officer at Barnard. In that role, she developed a strategy that anchored the institution's DEI work in the benefits it brings to the entire community—in the classroom, through co-curriculars, and in relationships and programming outside campus. She also led important campus initiatives such as a faculty task force on free expression.