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Joe O’Shea

Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Florida State University

Joe O’Shea serves as Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Florida State University, where he helps lead the university’s award-winning student success initiatives. Joe also serves as a postsecondary education expert for the U.S. Department of Education and co-editor of the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success. A Truman and Rhodes Scholar, he has a master’s degree in comparative social policy and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Oxford. Joe is the author of the book Gap Year: How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and Doing College Right: A Guide to Student Success, published by Columbia University’s Teachers College Press.