Noah D. Drezner

Noah D. Drezner (he/him/הוא) is the inaugural Vice Dean for Academic Success and Strategy. He was appointed to this role in 2024 after serving as Special Advisor to the Provost and serving a term as the chair for the Faculty Executive Committee at Teachers College. In this role Noah is responsible for developing and implementing initiatives to enhance student success, promote academic excellence, and drive strategic innovation across our graduate programs. Noah collaborates closely with Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, faculty, staff, and students to support a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement.

Noah is also a Professor of Higher Education and Principal Investigator of the Tzedakah Lab in the Department of Organization and Leadership. He is internationally known as a leading researcher on educational philanthropy. His work focuses on philanthropy and fundraising in higher education with a particular attention to how a person’s social identities affect their giving to higher education and ways postsecondary institutions can engage their alumni in more inclusive ways. Additionally, Noah is founding editor of Philanthropy & Education (Indiana University Press). His research and service has been recognized with awards by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Teachers College, the University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Rochester.