Rutgers University Athletics

Anna Forster is a Learning Specialist and Educational Services Coordinator in the department of Academic Services for Student Athletes. Since July 2015, Forster has met with academically at-risk student-athletes, including members of the Rutgers football, wrestling, men's basketball, and women's basketball teams from freshmen to seniors, for 20-25 hours weekly to assist with skill building and course content assimilation. She has also overseen the department's tutoring program and maintains primary responsibility for recruiting, hiring, and training learning assistance, writing, and ESL tutors.

Forster holds an undergraduate degree in Women's Studies and Comparative Development Studies from Trent University and an interdisciplinary master's degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University.  In her MA thesis, she researched a project that applied social movement theory to understanding the history of the second wave women's movement in Canada.  She subsequently completed an MA and PhD in Sociology at Rutgers University.  Her MA paper examined Americans' attitudes towards working mothers, using logit regression modeling with General Social Survey data. Her dissertation research was a methodological investigation into the function of the concept in sociological study of gender, proposing new insights to guide conceptual development in this sociological subfield.  In 2022, Forster completed an MEd in Counseling Psychology at the Graduate School of Education a Rutgers to update her credentials in the post-secondary student services field.

In addition to her work with student-athletes, Forster has worked as an undergraduate instructor at Rutgers for more than 20 years. At the New Brunswick campus she currently teaches the foundational course for Douglass Residential College students, Knowledge and Power: Issues in Women's Leadership, through the Women's, Gender, and Sexual Studies department, as well as classes at all levels on a variety of topics in the Sociology Department. Through the Division of Continuing Studies, she teaches advanced research methods classes in the Criminal Justice Program at Brookdale Community College. Forster has past faculty appointments in the Writing Program in the English Department, the Political Science Department, and the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, plus many years of experience teaching upper-level Sociology classes both in New Brunswick and at several off-campus locations.