Norwich University’s College of Graduate and Continuing Studies has announced two new hires to help support the admissions and student services efforts for its online programs.
Heather Forsyth has been named student services advisor for the online Bachelor of Science in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis (SSDA) program. She joins a team dedicated to supporting the success of students in the SSDA program, the only online degree program designed exclusively for the Special Operations Forces community.
Forsyth returns to Norwich after completing her Master of Science in Organizational Leadership in 2012. Forsyth’s drive to help SSDA students achieve their educational and professional goals is enhanced by her prior eight-year career as an Army officer.
Additionally, Connie Button has been hired as an admissions coordinator, bringing over 20 years of professional experience to Norwich University. Her extensive background in higher education includes stints at Dartmouth College, where she served as a recruiting assistant for the Amos Tuck School of Business, and Vermont Law School, where she served 10 years as an admissions coordinator, among other positions. Button most recently worked as the program coordinator for the Orange County Parent Child Center.
Both Forsyth and Button share a love for Vermont. Forsyth and her family are new to the Montpelier area. She enjoys hiking, camping and snowboarding with her husband and three children.
For Button, a seventh generation Vermonter from the Chelsea/Tunbridge area, Vermont has always been home.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation's six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).