Aislinn Doyle, director of admissions for the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport, was named assistant director of admission for Saint Michael's College starting this month. Her assignment will include travel for student recruitment in Ohio, and upstate and western New York.
Ms. Doyle is a 2006 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in journalism, American studies and dance. She earned a master of education degree in arts in education in 2008 from Harvard University.
“I love admissions and really enjoy meeting students and their families,” said Ms. Doyle. “Saint Michael’s has a great reputation, a strong sense of community, and great academics—I want to spread the word about that—that’s what drew me to this job.”
Ms. Doyle managed the admissions program for Maritime Studies from 2009 to 2011. She served as a post graduate fellow of the Dream Project in the Dominican Republic from 2008-2009, running a USAID grant that funded a camp for at-risk youth. She had a number of volunteer and paid jobs working with immigrant youth programs in the Cambridge, Mass., area while she was a graduate student at Harvard. She has worked as a web designer and has done an internship in dance at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Ms. Doyle was a founding member of The University President’s Committee on Cultural Diversity at Notre Dame.
Aislinn Doyle is the author of “(Names Have Been Changed),” a work of creative nonfiction that appeared in Best of Creative Nonfiction,(Norton, 2009), and of “Is I Was,” Harvard ALANA Anthology, May 2008