Sandra Taylor, Associate Director of CAPE - Athlete Academic Advisor
Sandra Taylor joined NJIT in January 2010 as Academic Advisor for Student-Athletes working in NJIT’s Center for Academic and Personal Enrichment (CAPE).
She will focus on five key areas: academic support, career development, personal development, leadership, and community service, including the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and CHAMPS Life Skills for NJIT’s nearly 300 student-athletes.
Prior to joining NJIT, Sandra Taylor spent her professional career at Manhattan College, which is also her alma mater.
Working in the athletics department at Manhattan, a founding member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Taylor was most recently Associate Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator, having filled those posts since 1996.
For much of that time (1995 to 2003), she was Chief Athletic Department Compliance Officer, with responsibility for Manhattan’s adherence to NCAA Division I, MAAC and college regulations. She began her service at Manhattan as Athletic Department Ticket Manager, serving in that capacity from 1993 to 2003.
In her time at Manhattan, she served on numerous NCAA, conference and internal college committees, including service on the NCAA Division I Management Council from 2004 to 2007 and as chair of the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Committee from 2002 to 2006.
At the conference level, she chaired the MAAC Women’s Basketball Committee from 1997 to 2009 and also served on four other sport committees, as well as on the MAAC Committee on Athletic Administration, with service as vice-chair in 2008-09.
Internally at Manhattan, her assignments included service on the Middle States Review in 2000 and on the NCAA Certification Committee.
She earned both her bachelor’s degree in secondary education and her master’s degree in special education from Manhattan College and is doctoral candidate in educational leadership at St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN.
Sandra and her husband, Ken, who is Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketball and Baseball at the MAAC, reside in Monroe Township, NJ, with their daughters, Katherine, who was born in May 2004, and Samantha, who was born in July 2009.
Tim Wuorinen - Eligibility Certification Officer/Academic Advisor
Tim Wuorinen, on the staff at NJIT since August 2003, moved over to the Center for Academic Personal Enrichment as Eligibility Certification Officer/Academic Advisor, after having spent the previous five-plus years working in the NJIT Department of Athletics as assistant athletic director and coordinator for compliance and student-athlete services.
He began as Assistant Athletic Director for NCAA Compliance in August 2003, as NJIT began its reclassification from NCAA Division II to Division I, first in men’s soccer and then for the entire athletic program.
In August 2006, he became Coordinator for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, the position he held until late in the 2008 calendar year, when he moved to his current position.
Prior to joining the staff at NJIT, he was a compliance fellow with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and he has worked in the athletic offices of American International College, Keene State College, and Western New England College, his undergraduate alma mater. In addition to his bachelor’s degree from Western New England, he earned as master’s degree from NJIT.
Tim and his wife, Tara, who is the academic/athletic coordinator at Saint Peter’s College, reside in Aberdeen, NJ.