Presenter Bio - Dr. Amy Buechler-Steubing
Dr. Amy Buechler-Steubing currently serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Learning Innovation at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) an R1, Hispanic Serving Institution. In this role she provides visionary leadership to design, implement, and assess innovative approaches that foster student success inside and outside the classroom.
Dr. Buechler-Steubing is a higher education leader with over 26 years of experience advancing student success, learning innovation, and organizational transformation through a deeply student-centered approach. Her expertise spans program development, curriculum and instructional design, teaching, and strategic leadership across diverse student populations, including non-traditional, online, first-generation, transfer, and historically underserved students.
She leads innovations and strategic initiatives across UTSA’s collaborative student success ecosystem, directly overseeing several key units within the Division of Student Success, providing strategic leadership across seven College Student Success Centers, and guiding multiple cross-functional project teams.
She champions data-informed curricular redesign, evidence-based pedagogical
practices, and collaborative approaches that position students not only as learners, but as partners in shaping the university experience. In 2023, she was appointed UTSA’s first Academic Innovation Fellow, leading, co-creating, and collaborating on major initiatives to build AI literacies among faculty, staff, and students; support responsible and effective use of generative AI; expand micro-credential and digital fluency opportunities; strengthen support for online learners; and enhance use of the LMS to advance student success.
Dr. Buechler-Steubing has presented at numerous conferences on student success and
innovation in higher education over two decades. She also serves as co-PI on several
grants focused on student thriving and learning innovation including a $7.2 million U.S.
Department of Education Postsecondary Student Success grant and leads research
examining pathways to thriving for UTSA students.
