Drs O. van den Wijngaard

Oscar van den Wijngaard studied history and philosophy in Leiden, and joined University College Maastricht in the Spring of 2003, shortly after it was founded. Previously he had worked as director for a study abroad program of an American liberal arts college, and as a free-lance editor for several publishing houses. At UCM Oscar contributed to curriculum development, taught courses in the humanities as well as skills, developed projects in collaborative learning and he was coordinator of its academic advising program, overseeing the work of 55 academic advisors: academics in an advising/personal tutoring role. 
September 2017 Oscar joined the staff of EDLAB, the Maastricht University Centre for Teaching and Learning, as a Senior Educational Developer. At EDLAB he is member of the team that focuses on education innovation. He has coordinated or coordinates projects on academic advising, retention and student persistence in the first year, student engagement, PBL introductions, and teaching informed research.

Oscar joined NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising in 2005 and has been actively involved in the work of the association ever since. He was a member of the task force that set out a course for NACADA towards becoming a Global Community for Advising. In 2013 he led the committee that organized NACADA’s first official International Conference in Maastricht. Together with Dr. Ruth Darling he is founding co-editor of the new online peer-reviewed journal NACADA Review: Academic Advising Praxis and Perspectives. He served on the association’s Board of Director from October 2018 to October 2021, and his currently member of its Publications Advisory Board.

From January 2017 to March 2021, Oscar chaired the Board of the Dutch association for academic advising LVSA. After his term on the Board of LVSA ended, he continued to be involved in the work of the association, for which he currently leads the working group on international collaboration.
 

Since April 2020, Oscar is member of the Board of Trustees of UKAT, the British association for academic advising and personal tutoring.