Danielle Moore has settled seamlessly into her role as recruitment and retention coordinator in the Student Services Office during her first year at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Her office door is always open. “I enjoy supporting prospective and current students on their educational journeys. It’s exciting to meet incoming students and to follow them into their first academic year and beyond,” she says. “I see myself as someone they can connect with and turn to as a resource.”
At one time or another, Danielle meets every undergraduate student in the School. She supports students from the time they show an interest in the Rubenstein School as prospective students to their first year enrolled in the School and often through graduation. She assists students with first-year advisor assignments and first semester course registration, helps them to add or change majors and minors in the School, and keeps them on track to meet their graduation requirements.
Danielle coordinates the Rubenstein School’s Admitted Student Visit Days, First-Year and Transfer Student Orientation, and Open House during UVM’s fall homecoming weekend. She represents the School at admissions and academic information sessions and at college and career fairs, visits high schools, manages School scholarship programs, and develops printed admissions brochures and program materials.
She began her career in college admissions at two small colleges in the Pacific Northwest. At Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington, she worked as an admissions counselor. Later, as a campus visit coordinator at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, she organized prospective student visits and admissions events.
In between her two college admissions jobs, Danielle developed a passion for growing food and working with her hands at a small farm in Zigzag, Oregon where she worked alongside her husband Guy Maguire. They managed the farm’s community supported agriculture program, supplied vegetables to local restaurants, hosted students in the WWOOF and Workaway programs, and ran the farm’s Airbnb on an old homestead.
Danielle grew up in Newport, Vermont with an enthusiasm for reading and learning. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2010 at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont.
“I learned how to write, think critically, and be reflective,” she says. “This has served me well in my roles working with students.”
Immediately after college, she joined AmeriCorps and worked for a year at youth centers in Winooski, Vermont. A second year with AmeriCorps took her to Olympia, Washington and Big Brothers Big Sisters, where she recruited mentors and coordinated their pairing with elementary school-aged children.
In most weather, Danielle bikes to work at UVM from her home in the New North End of Burlington where she lives with Guy, now a program director at South Hero Land Trust in northern Vermont. They continue to enjoy gardening and local foods and volunteer at the community gardens in Burlington’s Intervale. They also cook, hike, backpack, and spend time with their two rescue dogs Matilda and Zorro.