Will Sartore

William (Will) Sartore is the Assistant Dean of Graduate Education and Strategic Initiatives for the College of Liberal Arts. In his role, he leads graduate education operations and key strategic initiatives across the College of Liberal Arts. The role oversees graduate student success and mentoring, enrollment management, academic policy implementation, program development and assessment, and continuous improvement across CLA departments and interdisciplinary programs. He manages the Oral English Proficiency Program (OEPP), and serves as the CLA liason to the Office of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Scholars Graduduate Council. He is currently leading the development of CLA's AI Literacy Initiative. 

Prior to Purdue, he worked as an ESL instructor and taught in Vietnam, South Korea, Rwanda and Poland. He holds a BS in Political Science (Central Michigan Univ.), an M.Ed in Adult Education (Pennsylvania State Univ.), and completed his PhD in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (Michigan State Univ.). He studied abroad for a semester at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) as an undergraduate.