Faculty Leader

Dr. Lisa Sethre-Hofstad serves as Concordia’s vice president for Student Development and Campus Life. She took over the newly revised and renamed division in Fall 2017, leading student support, student development, and campus life.

She has taught in the psychology department at Concordia for more than 25 years and previously served as associate dean of the college.

Sethre-Hofstad has been recognized on campus through leadership roles and through Centennial Research Grants. Beyond Concordia, she has been honored as a Fulbright Scholar, a Scholar of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, a Thrivent Fellow, and a participant in the HERS Summer Leadership Institute for Women in Higher Education.

She brings to her work a devotion to equity, to diversity in opportunity and practice, and to the rich worth and promise of every Concordia student.

During her time at Concordia, she spent one year as a Fulbright Scholar in Tromsø, Norway, where she again taught in 2010 while on sabbatical leave. Her interest in international travel and education began as an undergraduate at Concordia College, where she majored in psychology and Scandinavian studies, during which time she spent three summers working at Skogfjorden, Concordia’s Norwegian Language Village. She has spent time living abroad in Australia and Norway and has led students on study abroad experiences to London and Oslo.