peer mentors in action
First Year Experience Staff

Professor Beau Breslin
Assistant Dean of the Faculty and Director of the First-Year Experience

Beau Breslin is an Associate Professor in Skidmore's Government Department. He teaches courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, constitutional thought, and capital punishment. He has published articles on such issues as constitutional theory, comparative constitutionalism, and the death penalty. His books, The Communitarian Constitution, 2004, and Words to Worlds: Exploring Constitutional Functionality, 2009, were both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 Marla Melito
 Student Academic Development Coordinator
Marla has a B.A. in English from Skidmore College, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from George Mason University, and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction also from George Mason University.  She returned to Skidmore in 2005 to teach in the English Department.  Prior to her return, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of  Fall for the Book at George Mason University, served as a writer-in–residence for the DC Creative Writing Workshop and DC WritersCorps teaching poetry to at-risk students in inner-city schools, and held a variety of jobs in international public health. 


 Aletheia (Allie) Taylor
 Administrative Assistant
 

Allie supports the First-Year Experience with her organizational and management skills, which are used on a daily basis to track and maintain multiple department office budgets, assist and supervise peer mentors, aid students, parents, faculty and staff with FYE based information and questions, assist the coordinator with arrangement details for speakers, events and a variety of special programs including Orientation.

Allie joined the staff at Skidmore College in the fall of 2004 as secretary in the Office of Institutional Diversity and moved to the First-Year Experience in the summer of 2005. Allie has an A.A. in Liberal Arts & Humanities from Dutchess Community College and is currently working toward a B.A. through Skidmore's UWW program. She is the child of an alum, and had also attended the Center for Child Study as a preschooler in the mid-1970s.