Jane F. Fried

Elected to the NOLS Board: 2006

Jane was elected to the NOLS Board of Trustees in June 2006. She serves on the Alumni and Development Committee, the Marketing Committee, and the Information Systems Committee.

Jane was appointed Assistant Head for Enrollment, Research and Planning, Dean of Admission for Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) in 2006 after serving as Dean of Admission (1992) and Senior Associate Dean of Admission (1991).  She received a B.A. degree (1983) cum laude from Bowdoin College and an MA degree (2002) from Tufts University.  She is a co-founder of both The Chatham Experience, an annual conference for experienced directors of admission, and Summernet, Phillips Academy’s first distance-learning program.

She has served as Chair of the Ten Schools’ Association and as a steering committee member of the Association of Independent Schools of New England.  Prior to joining the Academy, she was the New England Coordinator of the International Educational Consulting Program for FSL (Foreign Study League), Douglassville, Pennsylvania (1991). At Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts,  she served from 1985-1989 as Associate Dean of Admission, Associate Dean of Students, Director of Financial Aid, Assistant College Counselor, Class Advisor and World History teacher.  Jane began her career in education as a History teacher, dormitory head, and varsity field hockey and lacrosse coach at Suffield Academy (1985), Suffield, Connecticut. She lives in a girls dormitory on the Phillips Academy campus with her husband, Stephen, and their two children, Mason and Hope.