The Newlane Advisory Council meets at least annually, and provides advice on the current level of skills, knowledge, and abilities individuals need for entry into relevant occupation and advanced educational studies, and provides Newlane with recommendations on the adequacy of program structure and outcomes, curricula, and course materials.

Meet the Members of the Newlane Advisory Council: 

Guillermo Rivera, PhD

Guillermo Rivera is an experienced educator and administrator. Dr. Rivera studied the pedagogy of languages at the University of Miami. After finishing his Doctorate in Philosophy at UM, he worked for several years as a Faculty member and Department Head at Doral Academy. Dr. Rivera began teaching for Doral College in 2013, and worked on the SLO Committee, the Academic Affairs committee, and the Capstone Committee.  He became Faculty Chair in 2016 and Academic Dean in 2018. In July 2019, he became the Chief Academic Officer. 

Robbie McClintock, PhD

Robbie McClintock lives in Princeton, NJ,  and studies the cultural effects of education and technology. His interests formed as he earned his B.A. with high honors at Princeton University in 1961 and his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1968. He served on the Johns Hopkins University faculty from 1965-67 and then the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia University, until retiring in 2011 as the Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education. Since 2011 he has published several books and essays on formative education and its cultural effects and has been developing an innovative website, A Place to Study, to support self-formation and liberal learning in the digital commons.

David Sabey, PhD

David Sabey is an educator and scholar who has taught and conducted research at the secondary and tertiary levels. He holds advanced degrees from UNLV (M.Ed. – Curriculum and Instruction), Harvard (M.Ed. – Human Development and Psychology) and Vanderbilt (PhD – Learning Science and Learning Environment Design). His areas of academic expertise include deeper learning, learning across contexts, dialogic pedagogy, and ethics in education.