APUE Staff Listing

Marika Seigel

  • Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
  • Dean of the Pavlis Honors College
  • 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
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.
  • Teaching Professor, Engineering Fundamentals
  • Director, Husky Folio

Teaching Interests

  • Graphics
  • Visualization
  • Computer aided design

Research Interests

  • Education methods
  • Spatial visualization
  • Fate and transport of pollutants in the environment
Jessie Neece
"Design is thinking made visual."
—Saul Bass

Jessie Neece

  • Marketing and Communications Manager

Specialties

  • Strategic marketing and communications planning

  • Web and digital content management

  • Social media strategy, storytelling, and engagement

  • Graphic design and brand development

  • Project leadership and student team supervision

Casey Nelson

  • Manager, Study Away and Abroad

Specialties

  • Provides leadership and oversight of Michigan Tech’s Study Away and Study Abroad programs
  • Development and management of domestic and international academic experiences
  • Student advising and support for study away and abroad opportunities
  • Collaboration with faculty and academic units on program development
  • Program assessment, compliance, and risk management
  • Promoting global learning and intercultural engagement

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
Cassandra Reed-VanDam

Cassandra Reed-VanDam

  • Essential Education Experience Manager

Specialties

  • Student-led experiential education
  • Community-based and participatory research
  • Facilitation for social change
  • Environmental justice and food sovereignty
  • Assistant Teaching Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Coordinator of Academic Advising, Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Teaching courses in human biology and professional development
  • Academic planning and student success
  • Providing professional development and resources for academic advisors