Educator, Author, Scholar
Dr. Judy Farmer Jarvis is an educator, scholar, and higher education administrator. She has worked in a range of student affairs practitioner and leadership roles at Vassar College and Princeton University, and currently serves as Associate Vice Provost for Student Success and Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education from Rutgers University and a Master’s of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Jarvis welcomes opportunities to share her work through author talks, lectures, keynote presentations, consulting engagements, and media interviews. Please get in touch through the contact form.
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Publications
Sanford III, E., Jarvis, J. F. & Anglero, E. (2025). Queering institutional milestones in elite higher education: Queer perspectives on Princeton University and coeducation (1960–1980). Gender and History.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.70006
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Jarvis, J. F. (2025). Trust, remove friction, and know your lane: Effective crisis leadership in the Princeton meningitis B outbreak. In D. Simard & J. Acker (Eds.), Narratives of upheaval in higher education (pp. 235–262). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-2063-2.ch010
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Jarvis, J. F. (2024, March 7). Complicated messes and the joys of student growth: Reflections on Kathleen Deignan’s 46 years of leadership in student affairs. ACPA Developments, 21(1).
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Jarvis, J. F. (2023). The changing legal landscape for LGBTQ+ students in higher education: Special relationship doctrine, Title IX and religious freedom of expression. The College Student Affairs Journal, 41(1),
153–163.
https://doi.org/10.1353/csj.2023.0010
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Jarvis, J. F., Gigliotti, R. A. & Kolligian, J. (2023). “The Princeton Outbreak”: A case study of a university health crisis and implications for communicating science. In H. D. O’Hair & M. J. O’Hair (Eds.), Communication and catastrophic events: Strategic risk and crisis management (pp. 155–173). Wiley Blackwell.