A higher education administrator with more than 20 years of experience in roles across advising, recruitment, program management, international education, and diversity, equity and inclusion, Huey Hsiao returns to Syracuse University as the School of Education’s (SOE) assistant dean for student success.
Huey Hsiao
As assistant dean, Hsiao will enhance student success and belonging as leader of SOE’s Office of Academic and Student Services. In this role, he will oversee undergraduate and graduate recruitment, student advising and support, career services and certification, and leadership and success initiatives such as the Education HIVE Living Learning Community and student organizations.
“Huey Hsiao is well known on this campus as a staunch advocate for students and a sterling colleague,” says SOE Dean Kelly Chandler-Olcott. “He has deep institutional knowledge and has collaborated with our school in numerous capacities over the years. We can’t wait to have him on our team.”
Most recently, Hsiao served as Kent G. Sheng ’78 Associate Dean of Students, Director of the Asian and Asian American Center (A3C) and interim co-director of the Centers for Student Equity, Empowerment and Belonging at Cornell University. As part of his role as the director of the A3C, Hsiao established Elevating Asians, a program supporting students’ personal growth and leadership development. He also re-envisioned and centralized the A3C’s work around Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month.
Before Cornell, Hsiao served at Syracuse University for 16 years, most recently as associate director of multicultural affairs and director of the Kessler Scholars Program. In these roles, Hsiao directed the WellsLink Leadership Program, an academic and leadership development initiative for first and second-year students of color; served as the campus lead for the Kessler Scholars Program, a national cohort-based scholarship program for first-generation college students; chaired the planning committee for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month; and facilitated workshops and seminars on issues connected to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and the transition to college.
In his previous role as interim director of the University’s Disability Cultural Center, Hsiao partnered with students, faculty and staff to produce “Cripping” the Comic Con, a symposium exploring representations on disability in popular culture.
Hsiao began his Syracuse University career as assistant director of student services, MBA and M.S. Programs, in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, where he provided services and programming for more than 200 graduate students aimed at facilitating students’ academic and professional success.
Before joining the University, Hsiao worked for the Council on International Educational Exchange, including as assistant resident director at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan. He has also taught English at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.
Hsiao holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and an Asian Studies certificate from the University of Rochester; an MBA from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain); and a Diversity and Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University.
