Liam Quinn (he/him/his)

Assistant Dean, Student-Athlete Support
Academic Success Coach

 

Areas of Interest

  • Exploratory counseling; helping students identify areas of interest
  • Strengths assessments and goal setting with students
  • Working with student-athletes
  • First generation, low income, and underrepresented college students
  • Coaching students to challenge thinking errors and pushing them to take full ownership of their education
  • Coaching students towards being purposeful, realistic, introspective, and circumspect in their academic decisions

Education

  • B.A., American Civilization (History Concentration), Middlebury College (VT)
  • M.A., Counseling Psychology (School Counseling), University of San Francisco

Fun Facts

Year Started at USF: 2015
Hometown: Vermont (you’ve never heard of the actual town…). I’ve been on the West Coast since 2006 – first in Seattle, then San Francisco.

  • I played baseball for 4 years in college
  • I grew up on 100 acres in a town of a couple hundred people
  • I have a very Dons family: I attended USF for grad school, while my wife and her father graduated from USF Law School; both of her parents attended USF undergrad.
  • I love reading historical nonfiction, especially presidential biographies and new perspectives on well-known events
  • I was a season ticket holder at 49ers games for 3 years, and was in attendance for the last game at Candlestick
  • I once drove solo from Vermont to Seattle in under 3 days
  • I serve as the president of SF Spurs, the official supporters’ club for Tottenham Hotspur, an English Premier League soccer club based in London

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