About Me

Dr. Alison LaLond Wyant serves as the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning. In this role, Alison provides leadership for The College of Global Studies’ rich curricular offerings at our eleven centers around the world – with new ideas coming all the time from our faculty and institutional partners. Alison brings years of experience in service-learning curriculum planning, community-university partnership building, and higher education administration to the role, but she finds Arcadia to be on the leading edge for global, integration-based experiential education that is directly applicable to American students’ course of study and professional aspirations.

Before joining The College, Alison served as the Stouffer College House Dean at the University of Pennsylvania. She had also held positions in other mission-driven units at Penn: the Greenfield Intercultural Center, The Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and Civic House. Alison has taught courses about community engagement, service-learning pedagogy, and global connections. She draws energy from watching students hone their leadership skills by bringing their academic work to bear on real-world problems. Alison worked in community-based organizations in Baltimore, Maryland, before her career in higher education.

Originally from Massachusetts, Alison earned her B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and her M.S.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation analyzed Penn’s relationship with one of its neighboring public high schools, and her broader research interests include higher education’s service mission and, more specifically, the processes and products of campus efforts to serve the public good through community engagement.

Outside of work, Alison is committed to supporting refugees who are new to the U.S., volunteering weekly with a local refugee resettlement group. She is also the founding director of a community to support mothers’ career advancement.

Alison and her family reside in Glenside, and the remaining four of her top five favorite places in the world (so far) are Galway, Ireland; Cascais, Portugal; Leuven, Belgium; and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.