Jamie Yen Tan announced as new YDS Registrar

It pleases me greatly to announce our new Registrar. Please join me in welcoming Jamie Yen Tan to the YDS community! 

 

Ms. Tan joins us from The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church and Virginia Theological Seminary, where she served as Registrar and Associate Dean for Academic Programming. Prior to the affiliation of those two institutions in 2022, she was Registrar and Assistant Dean for Academic Administration at General.

 

Jamie was an Advising Dean at Columbia University (Columbia College and the Engineering School, specifically) from 2018 to 2022, and prior to that she was Student Affairs Officer at Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, from 2015 to 2018. She served internships for the Presbyterian Church in Singapore and at the United Nations from 2013 to 2015. In addition, she has been active in the AAPI Caucus of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

 

Jamie is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied modern Southeast Asia. She earned her M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary before going on to complete an M.A. in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

 

I am confident Jamie will support our students with great skill and care, as she has done in her previous positions in higher-ed administration. She is not only exceptionally well prepared to assume this position but is a warm and caring human being who will serve students with aplomb.

 

Ms. Tan began work at YDS on August 1.