Academic Affairs Staff

Greg has primary responsibility over the activities and staffing of the Office of Academic Affairs for the UW Colleges. His responsibilities include oversight of the academic departments, personnel issues regarding hiring, retention, tenure and promotion of faculty, institutional research, inter-institutional collaborations and articulations, assessment of student learning, professional development of faculty and academic staff, student support services, registrar functions, budget for academic affairs, accreditation, and academic planning and program review.

Lisa's principal responsibilities include reviewing and interpreting academic policies and procedures, academic program development and review; library planning; articulation and transfer issues; instructional staffing and budgeting; organizing and facilitating the New Deans and New Chairs Orientations; advancing the Engaging Students in the First-Year initiative; assisting in the institution's assessment of student learning program; and supervising the Director of Library Support Services, the Coordinator for Professional Development, the Assistant Coordinator for Engaging Students in the First Year, and the Institutional Assessment Coordinator.

Patti's responsibilities include providing leadership for the implementation of the enrollment management plan for the institution and the management of the student services functions of the central office. These include the offices of Financial Aid, Admissions and Records, Disability Support Services, TRIO programs, and the Alcohol and Other Drug Education Program. Support, consultation, and resources for the student services-related offices on the campuses are also primary tasks for Patti's office.

Laura is an Associate Professor in the Biological Science Department at the UW-Marshfield/Wood County campus. In addition to teaching three courses on the campus, she is coordinating the UW Colleges Assessment Program. She works closely with the Senate Assessment Committee, Department Assessment Coordinators, and Campus Assessment Coordinators helping them plan and implement the Colleges assessment program, and responding to areas of concern. Laura also works with the Senior Information Manager and Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs.

Rex identifies and communicates workshops, conferences and award opportunities of potential interest to faculty and staff and administers transmittal of grants and awards materials to various Senate committees and the UW System; he provides support to the Senate Professional Development Committee, the Senate Teaching Awards Committee and the UW Colleges Colloquium Planning Committee; serves as the UW Colleges Administrative Representative to OPID and acts as liaison for UW System programs and awards.

Gregg divides his time between the areas of transfer advising and institutional research. In the area of transfer advising, Gregg works with staff at the UW-River Falls and the UW System offices, developing enhancements to the UW Transfer Information System (TIS). These enhancements, when implemented, will enable students to receive electronic transfer advising via the web. In the area of institutional research Gregg collects, creates, and distributes management information for UW Colleges staff and faculty. This includes compiling and organizing data in the areas of enrollment management, curricular analysis, student learning assessment, and assessment of the first year experience.

Tim serves as a resource coordinator for the Continuing Education Outreach Program Managers located at each of our 13 campuses. The major responsibilities include monitoring CE budgets and non-credit programming, and serving as the Colleges liaison with UW-Extension Offices. In addition, this position coordinates the institution-wide study abroad programs for the UW Colleges.

Eric's role is to increase public and private support for Colleges-wide initiatives. The Grants Office provides support to campuses, central administration, and campus foundations by researching potential public and private funding opportunities, developing proposals (for grants generally larger than $50,000 per year), promoting multi-campus collaborations, providing grant writing technical assistance and grant development training. The primary focus of the Grants Office is on seeking funding from sources external to the UW System. To facilitate the implementation of a UW Colleges-wide grants strategy, the Grants Office is the central point of contact for all grant applications and maintains a UWC grants database.

Cary is responsible for the planning and administrative management of UW Colleges Online, and of all non-online DE including compressed video (CV) and WisLineWeb (WLW) throughout the UW Colleges thirteen campuses. He interacts with department chairs, campuses and the provost regarding issues of curriculum, staffing, enrollment, and scheduling, and with the faculty/staff teaching in all DE programs. In addition, he works with other institutions with which UWC has collaborations.

Cherie manages the records and admissions components of PeopleSoft Relational Information System (PRISM) along with the official academic transcript processing functions. She directs the admission process for international applicants and the review and processing of transfer credit. Cherie interacts with department chairs and campuses regarding issues of transfer credit and other Registrar related issues.

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