Katie Jewell

Katie Jewell serves as Special Assistant to the Deputy A.D. for Student Services. Jewell works with the Husker baseball and football programs. She serves on the Athletic Department's Academic/Eligibility/Compliance (AEC) Committee, assists staff in applying and monitoring changes in NCAA academic legislation, assists with monitoring and management of the Academic Progress Rate and Graduation Success Rate, assists with monitoring initial eligibility of incoming student-athletes, and serves as the liaison between the athletic staff and the Office of Admissions and NCAA Eligibility center. Jewell also serves as a member of the UNL Advising Coordinating Board.

 

Jewell began working as an academic counselor and coordinator of new student programs in 2001, before being promoted to Associate Director of Academic Programs in 2007. In the summer of 2026, she was named to her current position.

 

Before joining the Academic Performance Team staff as a full-time member, Jewell was an academic intern for one year and interim academic counselor for one year. Jewell also worked as an academic graduate assistant at Texas A&M for one year.

 

A native of Hastings, Neb., Jewell earned a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering from Nebraska in 1998, and a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Texas A&M in 1999.