The Compact Scholars Program (CSP) is the postsecondary component of the Compact for Success Partnership between the Sweetwater Union High School District and San Diego State University. As Director of the Compact Scholars Program, Janet works with SDSU faculty and staff and partners in the Sweetwater Union High School District and community to support the learning and development of CSP students on the SDSU campus. The program is designed to enhance students’ academic and social integration to ensure they maximize all the opportunities SDSU has to offer. Students are encouraged to engage in undergraduate research programs, study abroad, community based service learning activities, and student life services focused on success in college.
Janet was a Provost Scholar at the University of San Diego and graduated with departmental honors in English in 1997, and graduated magna cum laude from the university. She obtained her tenure as a high school teacher teaching English in the Grossmont Union High School District where she also served as AVID Coordinator. In 2000 she went on to work as Academic Programs Coordinator for the state outreach program, the California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP) where she eventually took on the role of Associate Director.
Janet received her M.A. in Higher Education Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2003 where she pursued her academic interest in student development theory. In New York, Janet worked at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Office of Diversity to coordinate activities for the State Pre-College Enrichment Program. Here, she teamed with first-year Columbia medical students and university faculty and staff, to support academic activities and programs to prepare underrepresented, academically-talented, high school students for medical or science careers.
Janet joined the Division of Undergraduate Studies at SDSU in 2004 as the Early Assessment Program coordinator. In 2005, she became the Director of the Compact Scholars Program.
Lorraine offers a variety of administrative support for the Compact Scholars Program. She assists the director in managing, organizing and coordinating the clerical operations of the department. Additionally, she offers support in planning workshops and special events.
Lorraine received her B.S. degree in Nutrition, and in 1999, began working for SDSU Foundation at the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. There she helped support a 5-year long study on childhood obesity. From this position, she came to the Division of Undergraduate Studies in 2000, where she supported the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Qualcomm Initiative pICT program. In April 2008, Lorraine started supporting the Compact Scholars Program. Being fairly new to the department, she looks forward to personally meeting Compact Scholar students and assisting them with their questions, needs and issues.
Lorraine is married with one daughter who is attending UCLA as a freshman, pre-nursing student. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, quad riding in the desert, world traveling, watching a good movie, and caring for her animals at home.
Karey Sabol is the International Coordinator for the Division of Undergraduate Studies.
She works on a variety of initiatives designed to increase opportunities for Compact Scholars to study abroad and to stimulate the global conversation on campus. Karey came to the Division from the College of Business Administration at SDSU, where she was an Academic Advisor. Still fairly new to the San Diego community, Karey moved here at the end of 2005 from Ashland, Oregon, where she worked as an Advisor at Southern Oregon University.
Karey’s vision is of an SDSU community that is globally competent and engaged. She believes strongly that one of the best opportunities students have at SDSU is the option to study abroad. Karey’s own experiences abroad have been life-changing and mission-shaping. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan from 1998-2000, where she lived and taught in a settled Bedouin village overlooking Petra (which was recently voted in as one of the new 7 Wonders of the World!). In addition to Jordan, she has had opportunities to visit Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Bahrain, Kenya, Costa Rica, Russia, Germany, and the UK. She is currently working on an Interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree in Middle Eastern Studies.
In her (very infrequent) spare time, Karey enjoys hiking and exploring the natural world with her husband, Thomas.
Jaclyn is a full-time graduate student in San Diego State University’s Master of Postsecondary Educational Leadership, Student Affairs program. She joined the Division of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) at SDSU in August 2009, and currently serves as the Graduate Program Assistant for the Compact Scholars Program. In this role, Jaclyn assists in mentoring/advising CSP students as well as developing, implementing, and evaluating academic and co-curricular programs specifically targeting and involving CSP students.
Prior to joining the DUS, Jaclyn was employed by Friends University’s Division of Student Affairs (Wichita, KS) – first, as the Coordinator of Programming and Leadership (November 2005 – December 2006), and next, as the Director of Cross Cultural Programs & Services (January 2007 – July 2009).
Jaclyn received her B.A. in Spanish & Leadership Communication (Magna Cum Laude) in 2001 from Buena Vista University (Storm Lake, IA). She feels that her college experiences (specifically AmeriCorps, Student M.O.V.E., and study abroad in Granada, Spain) were especially transformational – eventually leading her to a career path in higher education.
Jaclyn wants to see all CSP students thrive at San Diego State University – stating that her ultimate goal is to provide programs and services that will help them develop lives devotes to integrity, equality, humility, self-control, love, and passion.
In her spare time, Jaclyn enjoys traveling, volunteering, working out, spending time with family, friends, and/or her partner, and taking care of her pet hamster, Jamona.