Staff Directory
- Title:
- Assistant AD, Student-Athlete Academic Services (Football)
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Brett Rattan joined the UNT Athletics family in April 2024. He serves as Director of Student-Athlete Academic Services for the football program. Prior to UNT, he worked at West Virginia from 2022-24 as an academic counselor.
While at WVU, he served as an academic counselor to help provide academic guidance and support for West Virginia University’s football student-athletes. In that role, he organized and implemented academic programs that contributde to the educational and personal growth of WVU’s student-athletes and handled tutoring responsibilities as well.
He came to West Virginia from Texas A&M, where he served for two years as an academic advisor in the health and kinesiology department and as an athletic mentor.
In his role, he maintained undergraduate student case load of more than 350 and the database to include record of courses completed, catalog, classification, graduation and change of major. He assisted students with course advisement, the registration process, university resources, probation and life advice. He was the learning community coordinator, assisting freshmen taking the first-year experience course. He also worked with pre-professional students seeking post-graduation schooling/experience as physical therapists, occupational therapists and physician assistants.
Rattan also served as an assistant advisor intern with athletics academic services at Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, working with football and baseball. He also was an athletic academic advising intern at Stephen F. Austin State and was a physical education instructor at Quitman ISD in Quitman, Texas.
Rattan holds certifications in diversity and inclusion from USF, was a staff advisory council representative at Texas A&M and is a member of the National Association of Academic Advisors.
Rattan earned his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Stephen F. Austin in 2016 and his master’s degree in interdisciplinary students (education, student affairs, mass communications), also from Stephen F. Austin in 2020. He was a member of the Lumberjacks football team for two years.
