Leonor L. Wangensteen
Advising Professor
Director of Academic Support Programs
Areas of Interest
Leonor Wangensteen is an academic advisor for engineering majors, and she directs the College of Engineering’s Academically Collaborative Engineering Spaces (ACES) Program, which provides tutoring and peer mentorship for engineering students.
Her scholarship focuses on issues of social justice and spaces of belonging in higher education, including best practices in advising underrepresented student populations. Her areas of interest include STEM advising, integrative advising, culturally responsive advising, immigrant and undocumented student populations, and LGBTQ+ student populations.
An active member of NACADA: the Global Community for Academic Advising, Wangensteen offers advising resources, e-tutorials, presentations, and consulting services. At Notre Dame, she has served as faculty for the Center for University Advising and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and she was the inaugural Director of the Dream ND Community.
Wangensteen received the 2020 Notre Dame Dockweiler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising and the 2023 NACADA Leading Light Award.
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Education
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 2009
B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2003
