PROFILE   |   Janet L. Marling

Janet L. Marling Fellow

Dr. Janet L. Marling has dedicated her three-decade career to creating thriving, student-centered higher education ecosystems. Motivated by creating sustainable change, she helps organizations navigate complex challenges through context-aware, community-centered, and collaborative problem solving. 

As co-founder and former executive director of the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS), Janet remains committed to ensuring today’s diverse and mobile learners have equitable and inclusive access to educational opportunities and the ongoing resources needed to achieve their academic and career goals. 

Beyond transfer and credit mobility, Janet’s career portfolio includes executive and practitioner roles in student affairs and enrollment management, orientation and transition programs, personal and career counseling, peer mentoring, leadership development, and learning support, as well as faculty engagement in teaching, designing and coordinating the Post Master’s Certificate in Transfer Leadership and Practice, and directing doctoral dissertations. 

Janet currently serves on College Board’s Community College Advisory Panel (CCAP), the advisory board of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (NRC), and the Council for Standards in Higher Education (CAS); and she is a past appointed board member for the National Association for College Counseling (NACAC). 

Janet holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration, a M.S. in counseling psychology, and a B.S. in psychology. Her proudest accomplishment is parenting three amazing teens—Jackson, Cooper, and Andersen—alongside her favorite human, David.