Dr. Lisa Sethre-Hofstad

Dr. Lisa Sethre-Hofstad has over 27 years of experience working in higher education as a faculty member and administrator at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She brings a depth of background from the classroom as a psychology professor, and in both Academic Affairs and Student Affairs administration.  She was a Fulbright Scholar at the northernmost university in the world, the University of Tromsø, in Tromsø, Norway.

The philosophical underpinning of her work is one that is student-focused, proactive, and holistic, leveraging her disciplinary expertise in human development, and actively resisting the deficit-based language commonly present in the current cultural narrative about today’s college students. She is passionate about transformational educational practices in higher education, gender equity, diversity and inclusion, and student development, and is actively engaged in the ongoing work of building partnerships across institutional divisions and offices to promote student achievement and success. 

Dr. Sethre-Hofstad graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. from Concordia College, and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from the University of New Mexico. She participated in the 2012-2013 Thrivent Fellows Program, an intensive leadership development program for Lutheran institutions, the 2016 HERS Summer Leadership Institute for Women in Higher Education, and in the 2019-2020 CIC Presidential Vocation and Mission program.