Alumnus Sebastian Burkholdt is the Interim Assistant Director of the Intensive English Program within UGA’s Division of Academic Enhancement. He is responsible for the strategic development of the program, building partnerships on campus and beyond, budget planning, outreach, and recruitment. Sebastian also teaches upper-level English courses. Sebastian is also a part-time research assistant in UGA’s Office of Academic Honesty. In this role, he serves as a facilitator for academic misconduct meetings, creates educational resources for students and faculty, analyzes academic misconduct data, and creates training workshops for students and faculty who work with the Office of Academic Honesty. In 2022, he spearheaded the development of a remediation program for undergraduate students who violated UGA’s academic honesty policy. In December 2022, Sebastian graduated with a Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice with an emphasis in Social Studies Education from UGA’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. For his dissertation, he conducted research with ambitious high school history teachers about the influence of transformative learning and identity on the development of teachers’ goals, purposes, and teaching approaches. Education Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia, 2022 Certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies, University of Georgia, 2022 First State Examination for Teaching at Secondary Schools in Germany, University of Bamberg, Germany, 2014 M.A. in German Language and Literature, University of Georgia, 2012
