Andrea I. Stagg is Deputy General Counsel at Barnard College. She has advised federal and state legislators on best practices in campus safety and sexual harassment prevention and serves on a campus working group with prevention and response partners throughout New York State. Before joining Barnard, Andrea advised the SUNY Colleges at New Paltz, Oneonta, and Plattsburgh on all legal matters and provided System-wide Title IX compliance advice. Andrea co-coordinated a working group that created SUNY's sexual and interpersonal violence prevention and response policies, which formed the basis for New York Education Law Article 129B. In 2014, Andrea received the Commissioner's Award from the State University Police.
Andrea graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors from Rutgers University and received her law degree from The George Washington University, where she was an intern in the counsel’s office. Before law school Andrea worked in federal higher education lobbying for Rutgers University.
As a NACUA volunteer she has served on several NACUA committees, including the NACUANOTES Editorial Board, co-chairing the Committee on Web Page Legal Resources, and serving in her current role on the Committee on Membership and Member Services. Andrea has spoken at nearly a dozen events and has published two NACUANOTES and one Journal of College and University Law article on the topic of college sexual violence.
In the words of her colleagues, Andrea regularly makes time for new and continuing attorneys. She regularly reaches out to new NACUA members to welcome them and has trained new lawyers at the annual conference. She also regularly responds to NACUANET inquiries and other complicated questions raised by new and continuing attorneys.
NACUA is pleased to recognize Andrea I. Stagg as the recipient of this year’s First Decade Award for her outstanding service to the Association and to the practice of higher education law during her first ten years of membership.