Academics

QUESTIONS ABOUT AES? CONTACT

Johulin Zuluaga C’11

Student Success Advisor

973-408-3925

jzuluaga@drew.edu

Academic Excellence Scholars Mission

In conjunction with Drew’s overall mission to encourage knowledge, experience and service within our diverse community of learners, AES serves to support first-year, Pell-Eligible and/or First-Generation students in their transition from high school to university life. Through our summer bridge program, we seek to provide first-year scholars with skills and confidence needed for overall college success.

AES HOMEPAGE

Meet the Mentors

View intros for some of our amazing student mentors in the Academic Excellence Scholars program.

CHECK US OUT

First-Year Toolkit

Review important resources such as academic policies and semester checklists.

REVIEW THE RESOURCES
Additional Navigation

Learn about each member of the Academic Excellence Scholars professional team below!

Raúl Rosales C’99, Faculty

Raúl Rosales is Chair and Professor of Spanish. He is also the Director of the First-Year Experience, a role in which he oversees all aspects of the DSEM program and of first-year advising. He is the faculty advisor to both Ariel and La Casa Latina. He has led several shortTRECs abroad, including to Argentina, Spain, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Martinique. In 2016, he was awarded the Drew University Presidential Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 2019 received the Drew University Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Social Justice. More recently, he received the Frances B. Sellers Alumni Achievement Award for his contributions to this program. 

Raúl Rosales C’99, Faculty

Jens Lloyd, Faculty

Jens Lloyd [he/him] is a faculty member in the English department and serves as the Director of First-Year Writing at Drew. In addition to teaching academic writing courses for first-year students and English majors, Jens also teaches courses on travel writing, rhetorical theory, and YA fiction. In his free time, Jens enjoys scouring northern New Jersey for the best doughnut shops.

jens lloyd

Adijat Mustapha, Faculty

Adijat Mustapha is a professor of Psychology. Her background is in Clinical Psychology with a focus on multiculturalism and trauma recovery. When she’s not teaching, she is most likely in the middle of two or three craft projects at once.

Adijat Mustapha, Faculty

Johulin Zuluaga C’11, Staff

Johulin graduated from Drew University in 2011 with a B.A. in Sociology and French. She is a first-generation Colombian-American and also a graduate of the Education Opportunity Scholars (EOS) program. She currently serves as the Student Success Adviser in the Center for Academic Excellence, working with Drew’s first-year students as they adjust to college.

Before returning to The Forest, Johulin worked with SEEDS (formerly known as NJ SEEDS), where she gained wonderful experience working with students ranging from middle to high school and college. Prior to SEEDS, she also served as an AmeriCorps member in City Year New York for an East Harlem middle school.

Johulin Zuluaga C’11, Staff