Director, University Career Center
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Louise Jackson has led student and alumni career services for the last decade. She currently serves as the Director of the University Career Center at the University of Michigan. She has served within the University of California system, highlighting career success for underrepresented first-generation college graduates, and for University of Michigan students and alumni. She graduated from the University of Michigan’s School of Education with a master's degree in higher education in 2010 and is also certified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0. Louise has experience in career development program strategy, marketing and communications, budget management, and program evaluation for university and career development programs and is passionately committed to serving students and alumni through higher education and career development support.
Louise was born and raised in South Africa, witnessed the end of apartheid at the age of 13, and throughout high school experienced history books being rewritten in the newly democratic South Africa. She graduated from Stellenbosch University, with a bachelor's in political science. She met her husband in California in 2006 and became a United States citizen in 2009. She has followed her late father‘s footsteps into higher education administration. Her father, Dr. Rolf Stumpf, was a university executive and recognized expert in post-apartheid higher education and higher education administration in sub-Saharan Africa.
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