Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education

APUE Staff Listing

Marika Seigel

Marika Seigel

  • Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • Dean of the Pavlis Honors College
  • Associate Professor, Humanities

Research Areas

  • Educational Innovation
  • Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
  • Writing Program Administration

Specialties

  • Facilitate implementation of Michigan Tech’s undergraduate curriculum
  • Support ongoing growth in the Pavlis Honors College
Nancy Barr
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms–to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances."
—Viktor Frankl

Nancy Barr

  • Assessment and Writing Support Specialist

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • STEM communication instruction
     
  • Communication across the curriculum/communication in the disciplines
     
  • Portfolio assessment
     
  • Collaborative learning
     
  • Inclusive pedagogy
Jean DeClerck

Jean Straw DeClerck

  • Assessment Manager, Office of Assessment for Curricular Effectiveness

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Manages learning-goal assessment systems for both General Education and undergraduate degree programs.
  • Assists faculty in planning learning-goal assessment approaches intended to reveal opportunities to help students.
  • Promotes collegial, knowledge-sharing initiatives to improve instructional practices and student-learning-goal achievement across disciplines.
Jessie Neece
"Design is thinking made visual."
—Saul Bass

Jessie Neece

  • Marketing and Communications Specialist

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Graphic design
  • Print and digital marketing
  • Creative strategic thinking
  • Project management
Steve Patchin

Steve Patchin

  • Project Manager, Essential Education Implementation

Specialties

  • Support eight Essential Education implementation working groups in achieving their project goals and deliverables
     
  • Manage the budget for Essential Education implementation, a Tech Forward Initiative
     
  • Help build and manage communications, connecting with internal and external campus/related community regarding Essential Education implementation, operation, and outcomes
     
  • Assist in the building of a corporate task force to support the launch and growth of the Essential Education implementation initiative