Jan Rinehart
ARROWS External Advisory Board Member
Jan Rinehart
Executive Director, ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development
Northeastern University
Jan Rinehart is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University. As Executive Director of ADVANCE she works with faculty and administrators to diversify the faculty, create an equitable culture, and change institutional processes. She has over twenty-five years in higher education with most of her work focused on equity and diversity. Prior to assuming the Northeastern ADVANCE position, she served as Executive Director of the Rice University ADVANCE Program, the Deputy Director of the Space Engineering Institute, and the Director of Engineering Student Programs at Texas A&M University. She sits on ADVANCE External Advisory Boards for University of Massachusetts-Lowell, University of Delaware, University of Maine, Prairie-View A&M University, Louisiana Tech University, and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. She initiated the Women in Engineering program at Texas A&M University in 1994 and served as WEPAN (Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network) President from 2002-2003. She was awarded the WEPAN Founder’s Award in 2011, the Rice Women’s Resource Center Impact Award in 2010; the Texas A&M Enhancing Diversity Award; and the Women’s Week Outstanding Staff award. She received her MS in Higher Education Administration from Texas A&M University and a BS in secondary education from Abilene Christian University.