Elizabeth Rainey

Elizabeth Rainey oversees the Pan-American Life Student Success Center at Loyola University New Orleans. She leads university-wide programs designed to successfully guide students through their time in college, from commencement to graduation.

Since joining Loyola in 2010, Liz has developed innovative ways to enhance students’ college experiences. She created First in the PACK, a mentoring program for first-year, first-generation students. She developed and teaches classes focused on study habits and mindset strategies for students seeking to improve their GPAs. She launched a coaching program in 2017 to encourage goal setting and reflection with every first-year student. Liz is an Inside Track advanced certified student success coach. 

As Executive Director of the Student Success Center, Liz leads a collaborative team who provide a range of services for Loyola students, including academic advising, accessible education, career development, online success, success coaching and writing and learning resources.

Prior to joining the Loyola community, Liz was the founding college counselor at the New Orleans Charter Science and Math Academy, a charter school in New Orleans East. She also worked as an advising dean at Columbia University and in undergraduate admissions and faculty administration at New York University. She is a dcotoral candidate in the Executive Doctorate program in Higher Education Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.

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