Jennifer Holowaty

Biography

Jennifer Holowaty has served as an academic counselor/learning specialist in Student-Athlete Success Program (SASP) at UConn since 2017. Her primary responsibilities include working with the men's soccer and football teams and she is also charged with developing a series of workshops on academic skills based on the needs of each team here at UConn. Holowaty came to UConn from Western New England University, where she worked as an academic success specialist for three years. During her time at Western New England University, she worked with students on academic probation, taught a study skills class, and worked with the Life Skills Mentoring program for student-athletes. Prior to that, Holowaty worked at Eastern Connecticut State University as an academic advisor for one year where she taught developmental classes and English Composition at the community college level (as an adjunct instructor) for four years. Prior to her work in higher education, she taught high school English for ten years. Holowaty graduated from ECSU with a bachelor's degree in English and received her master's degree in Education from UMass.