ARC Leadership Team
Rebecca Weidensaul, PhD
Rebecca Weidensaul, PhD is the assistant vice president of Enrollment Management & Student Success. Throughout her tenure at Drexel, Dr. Weidensaul has brought leadership to support diverse communities within the student body, assessing and championing their specific needs to develop comprehensive resources and services to ensure their success.
In her current role as assistant vice president, Dr. Weidensaul oversees the McGonigal Academic Resource Center (ARC), providing leadership and advocacy for academic and tutoring centers at the University. Her team includes The Center for Learning and Academic Success Services (CLASS) and STEM Success Services, and she also provides direct leadership for The Center for Military and Veteran Services (CMVS), which includes the Veterans Task Force and the Masci Family Student Veterans Lounge.
Prior to her appointment to Student Life, Dr. Weidensaul provided nearly two decades of leadership in the Athletics department at Drexel, mainly focused on NCAA Compliance, life skills education, and founding the ACHIEVE Center. Prior to her work in Athletics, Dr. Weidensaul was a member of the Undergraduate Admissions team.
Contact Dr. Weidensaul
Room 121B, Korman Center
215.895.6092
rebecca@drexel.edu
Rebecca Signore
Rebecca Signore joined Drexel University in 2014 as the director of the Center for Academic Success on the Center City campus, where she oversaw academic support for the College of Nursing and Health Professions, the Dornsife School of Public Health, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies. In her current role as the executive director of University Academic Support, her responsibilities include oversight of the Center for Learning and Academic Support Services (CLASS) and collaborating across campus to promote the Academic Resource Center and the academic success of all Drexel Dragons. Under Rebecca’s direction, CLASS has expanded peer and professional academic coaching to serve all students and has extended these services to include a learning specialist who specifically supports students with learning and other disabilities. Rebecca also works closely with colleagues across the institution as a founding member of the Learning Alliance, which she organized in 2015 with two other learning center directors in an effort to enhance the Drexel student experience with academic support services. In addition to her leadership roles, Rebecca works one on one with students as an academic coach, helping them to refine and strengthen their study skills, behaviors, and habits. She holds a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA from Arcadia University, and she is currently a PhD candidate at Old Dominion University.
Marisol Rodriguez Mergenthal
Marisol Rodriguez Mergenthal is the Director of STEM Success Services at the McGonigal Academic Resource Center (McGonigal ARC). She has provided academic and co-curricular support to students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for over 15 years. Marisol has worked with both undergraduate and graduate populations through her work with the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and Bridge to the Doctorate Graduate Programs. Both were/are National Science Foundation-supported initiatives aimed at broadening and increasing representation of underrepresented groups within STEM.
In addition to academic coaching, she helps students connect to opportunities in research, internships, conferences and more. She is fortunate to have built a robust network of partners and collaborators among Drexel faculty, staff, alumni and other community partners to organize programming that promotes skill development and the expansion of professional networks to help deepen students’ commitment to their chosen fields of study. Moreover, she has worked with recipients of prestigious scholarships including but not limited to Fulbright, Goldwater, Truman, Udall, NSF-GRFP and others. In 2024, Marisol launched Drexel’s first-of-its-kind STEM Student Summit which brought together current students, faculty, staff and alumni from across the STEM disciplinary spectrum.
Marisol earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Georgetown University and her MBA at the University of Rochester.