Claudia Marin Andrade is the Interim Vice President for Student Affairs at the State University of New York at  Old Westbury, with twenty years of experience in Higher Education as a scholar, and administrative practitioner.  As the current Interim Vice President, she promotes and directs an accomplished and dynamic student affairs team with a strong commitment to student development, identity, and social justice. Provides leadership and oversight to student conduct, counseling, student health, residential life, student engagement, orientation, athletics, disability services, career planning & development, and creates a safe campus culture that fosters a rich holistic student experience and promotes a student-centered environment.

As the previous Dean and Deputy Title IX office at SUNY Old Westbury, she was responsible for overseeing the Colleges response to unlawful discrimination and sexual violence, which included coordinating sexual violence prevention and education efforts along with managing prompt, equitable, and thorough investigations for students.  Claudia also ensured continuous divisional assessment, strategic planning, critical incident management and provides leadership to the division of student affairs, and cross-divisional efforts.

Prior to her current Deanship, Claudia founded Hofstra University’s Office of Student Advocacy and Prevention Awareness and she served as the Assistant Dean of Students where she developed managed the behavioral intervention team, redesigned a mentor program geared to support students within high risk 

and marginalized identities, connecting academic, social and emotional skill interventions in order to impact retention, persistence and completion rates, along with strategic planning and assessment measures to the Division of Student Affairs.

Claudia dedicated10 years at the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University, where she held several positions including as the inaugural Director of the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention and Student Support, Associate Director of Residential Life for Judicial Affairs. 

Before entering Higher Education fulltime, Claudia was a psychiatric social worker and case manager. Claudia holds a Master of Social Work from Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service and completed a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from Manhattanville College.

Claudia is originally from Cali, Colombia, and resides in Suffolk County, Long Island with her family and friendly English Bulldog, Lola. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Higher Educational Policy Leadership at Hofstra University.