Provost

Provost's Council

Marilyn Levine, Ph.D.

Provost and Vice-President for Academic and Student Life

Strategic Planning and Implementation
Diverse Budget Management
Program and Curricular Development
Faculty and Student Recruitment, Development and Retention
Diversity, Global, and Interdisciplinary Leadership
Community Engagement and Partnerships

Central Washington University Provost and Vice-President for Academic and Student Life, Marilyn A. Levine, was appointed in the Winter of 2011. She came from Eastern Oregon University where she served as Dean of Arts and Sciences since 2005, after having served as Chair of Social Sciences at Lewis-Clark State College.

Dr. Levine was trained as a historian of Asia (China and Southeast Asia), with graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Hawaii. She has published two books, over four dozen articles, and created a dozen Web sites for research, teaching, professional, and community service. She has obtained and administered more than three dozen grants to fund research, teaching, and community projects. She received almost two dozen awards and honors, including three awards for teaching excellence. Dr. Levine has delivered over 140 presentations, workshops and public speeches, and organized two international conferences. Several of her works have been translated into French and Chinese. Her international reputation resulted in invitations to conduct joint projects and make presentations in the PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Italy, and Australia.

Tracy L. Pellett, Ph.D.

Associate Provost

tracy.pellett@cwu.edu
509.963.1403

Physical and health education teacher education
Standards-based Pedagogy
Curriculum and Instruction
Assessment
Online Educational Practices

Dr. Tracy Pellett is currently the Associate Provost at Central Washington University and provides vision, leadership, and support for a variety of institutional and academic and student life areas. Specifically, this includes providing leadership for institutional strategic planning, assessment, and accreditation and for the academic implementation of related curricular programming and policies. In addition, he provides administrative oversight for online and multi-modal learning and the Honors College.

Margaret Badgley

Assistant VP, University Centers

badgleym@cwu.edu
509.963.3958

Branch Campus Administration
Building Partnerships
Project Management
Problem Solving
Team Building and Communication
Community Engagement

Margaret Badgley is the Assistant Vice President for University Centers and Community College Relations. She oversees the management and operations of eight university centers co-located on community college campuses around the state. Her role is to ensure, through collaboration, that all instructional, student service and administrative operations of the campuses function effectively to deliver quality undergraduate and graduate programs. Her long history of building partnerships with both baccalaureate and community colleges and her experience in distance education are significant in the institutions ability to expand the reach of the university centers to new markets and new populations.

James A. Busalacchi, Jr.

Director, Faculty & Labor Relations

busalacchij@cwu.edu
509.963.2290

Workforce development
Product and program development
Project management and organizational performance
Technology innovation and transfer
Human and organizational performance

James A. Busalacchi, Jr. is CWU's Director of Faculty and Labor Relations. For the past five years he has served as a senior manager of Labor and Employee Relations at the California State University, Office of the Chancellor. At the CSU he was responsible for advising campuses on matters dealing with the collective bargaining agreements, handling both staff and faculty grievances, representing the CSU at grievance arbitrations, and bargaining collective bargaining agreements.

Richard Byham

Director, Continuing Education

byhamr@cwu.edu
509.963.1508

Workforce development
Product and program development
Project management and organizational performance
Technology innovation and transfer
Human and organizational performance

Ric Byham is CWU's Director of Continuing Education. For the past nine years he has served as the senior director of Continuing Education and Corporate College at the university of South Florida. At USF he led a 30-person staff and auxiliary and self-sustaining educational unit with more than $2 million in annual revenue. He oversaw professional and workforce development, lifelong learning, testing, conference and administrative services as well as the USF downtown center in Tampa.

Patricia J. Cutright

Dean, James E. Brooks Library

cutright@cwu.edu
509.963.1973

Library Administration & Management
Library Technology
Library Cooperation
Women Artists in Photography
Native American Authors/Literature

Patricia J. Cutright has been the Dean of Library Services at CWU since April 2009. She has been active in library work at the state, regional, national, and international levels and has published in the areas of technology and library cooperation. Her work has taken her to the Federated States of Micronesia where she designed and helped implement library automation projects that connected the public, schools and College of Micronesia. Her work with distance education resulted in the first Department of Education Title IId grant awarded in Oregon. The cutting-edge technology established the first multi-type, multi-access capability from a remote site to CD-Rom resources via dial-up connections. She lead in the creation of the Pioneer Library System, a 79 member library consortium established to provide excellence in library service for academic, public and school libraries in the 10 eastern counties of Oregon and chaired the effort to create the public and private college and university libraries consortium in Oregon and Washington, forming the 37-member Orbis-Cascade Alliance. She has lead academic libraries since 1993 at Eastern Oregon University and Pratt Institute. She has also taught graduate level courses in library administration and management at Pratt Institute.

Carol Faltus

Executive Assistant to the Provost

faltusc@cwu.edu
509.963.1401

Provide personal and confidential support to the Provost
Serve as corresponding liaison
Provide leadership in office administration
Supervise Provost Office Staff
Promote and uphold effective communication

Carol is the Executive Assistant to the Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Life. Carol has worked at the Central Washington University since May 1991 and has been working in the Provost’s Office since June 2007. This position, central to the smooth operation of the Office of the Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Life, involves a variety of high-level responsibilities that evolve daily. Carol understands the unique culture and dynamics of Academic and Student Life within the university/college setting. As a contact in Academic and Student Life, she employs excellent communication skills that reflect accuracy, tact, and represent the Provost's point of view, while ensuring confidentiality and compliance with the full range of university policies and procedures.

Kirk Johnson, Ph.D.

Dean, College of the Sciences

johnsonk@cwu.edu
509.963.3678

Social Problems
Crime and delinquency
Social construction of deviance, law, and social control
Organizational structure and pathology
Research methods

Kirk Johnson has over thirty years of experience in higher education. He has been dean of the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University since 2008. In that capacity he is responsible for administering a state-support budget in excess of $11 million and supervising over 150 full and part-time faculty located in 13 academic departments and 12 interdisciplinary programs and centers. Prior to assuming the role of dean he served as associate dean of curriculum and undergraduate instruction for two years and as chair of the sociology department for ten years.

Connie Lambert, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Education and Professional Studies

lambert@cwu.edu
509.963.1411

Special Education
Early Childhood Special Education
Inclusion of students with disabilities in K-12 classrooms
Inclusive strategies for students with disabilities

Connie Lambert is the Dean of the College of Education & Professional Studies (CEPS). She served as a faculty member in Special Education program for ten years, as Associate Dean for six years, and has been the Dean since Fall 2007. Dr. Lambert has K-12 public school experience and taught special education at both the preschool and elementary levels in Nevada, Kansas, and Colorado. Additionally, she has a strong background in teacher education and is the author of numerous articles, reports and publications relating to special education strategies and teacher preparation.

Michael A. Launius, Ph.D.

Assistant VP, International Studies & Programs

Launiusm@cwu.edu
509.963.3610

Building international partnerships
Increasing international student recruitment
Developing short-term academic programs
Increasing study abroad & exchange opportunities

Mike Launius is Assistant Vice President for International Studies & Programs. As CWU’s Chief International Officer (CIO) he oversees an office (OISP) with a staff and faculty of 32 spread across four programs with a mostly self-support budget exceeding $2.5 million. Areas under his direction include study abroad and exchange, university English as a second language, the Asia University America Program, and international student recruitment and advising. He is also the point person in the university’s ongoing internationalization projects and initiatives.

Kathryn Martell, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Business

martellk@cwu.edu
509.963.1990

Business School accreditation
Assurance (assessment) of student learning
International business education

Kathryn Martell (PhD, University of Maryland, BA, University of Chicago) is dean of the Dean of the College of Business at Central Washington University. Prior to her position at Central Washington, she was the dean at College of Business Administration and Public Administration at Kean University.

Dr. Martell is a nationally-known expert on the topic of assessing student learning. More than 900 faculty and administrators from 250 universities have attended the AACSB seminars that Dr. Martell facilitates on Assessment of Student Learning. She also is a frequent speaker at AACSB national and regional conferences. She developed the content for AACSB's on-line Assessment Resource Center, and edited the recently released books published by AACSB and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) – Assessment of Student Learning in Business Schools: Best Practices Each Step of the Way. She has provided consulting advice to dozens of universities on assurance of student learning. . Before entering academia, Dr. Martell spent 12 years in Washington D.C. as a consultant, government analyst, and lobbyist.

Marji Morgan, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Arts and Humanities

mmorgan@cwu.edu
509.963.1858

Liberal Arts Education
Modern British History
Early Modern European History
Visual and Performing Arts Education and Programming

Marji Morgan grew up in the San Fernando Valley and in New Orleans, attended Rice University as an undergraduate student, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Tulane University. She is a specialist in 19th-century British social and cultural history, and has published two books: Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858 (1994) and National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain (2001). After completing her Ph.D. in 1988, she became an Assistant Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). She became Chair of SIUC's History Department in 2000, and held that position until July 2005 when she came to CWU to be Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. When not teaching or "deaning," Morgan enjoys traveling, cycling, cooking and entertaining, attending arts events, and sampling wines from all over the world.

Sarah L. Swager, Ph.D.

Dean, Student Success

swagers@cwu.edu
509.963.1515

Student Development/Student Learning/Student Engagement
Institutional Change
Residence Life and Housing
Facilities Planning
Student Organizations and Student Government
Institutional Accreditation

Sarah Swager is CWU’s Dean of Student Success. She has 30 years experience in higher education administration, most recently serving over 16 years as Vice President and Dean of Students at small liberal arts colleges. Her experience includes extensive work in residential life, facilities and auxiliary services. She has nearly two decades of experience with institutional accreditation and currently serves as a peer evaluator for regional accreditors and consultant for institutions regarding compliance matters. She is involved regionally and nationally with various professional organizations, including NASPA, ACPA and ASHE.

John F. Swiney, Ph.D.

Associate VP, Enrollment Management and Institutional Effectiveness

swineyj@cwu.edu
509.963.3031

Strategic Enrollment Management Planning
Recruitment and Retention Program Development
Institutional Research and Statistical Analysis
Customer Relations Management Communication Technology
Psychological Testing and Measurement

John Swiney is the Associate VP for Enrollment Management and Institutional Effectiveness. Prior to joining CWU in 2007, his responsibilities included Director of the Human Factors Test Division at Eglin AFB, FL; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director of Institutional Research and Marketing, and Director of Admissions, all at the US Air Force Academy. Following his military assignments, he has held a series of positions as Director of Admissions including the University of Washington.

Tamara Wolford

Academic Finance Manager

twolford@cwu.edu
509.963.2943

Serves in a matrix reporting structure as the primary financial advisor to the Director, Budget and Business Analysis and the Provost / Vice President for Academic and Student Life
Serve as the Provost’s primary liaison with the university budget, accounting and business offices.
Business partner for students, faculty, staff and administrators regarding fiscally related issues within Academic and Student Life.
Financial and ad hoc reporting, budgeting, reconciliations, financial statement preparation and analysis

Tamara joined CWU as Academic Financial Manager in July of 2012. She serves as a financial business partner to the office of the Provost / Vice President for Academic and Student Life, Director, Budget and Business Analysis, students, faculty, staff and administrators as it relates to Academic and Student Life.

The majority of her career has been spent in a manufacturing environment beginning as the Accounting Manager at Tree Top, Inc. in Selah, WA and concluding as the Accounting Manager at Key Technology, Inc. in Walla Walla, WA. She is a CWU Accounting alumnus and is excited to be back at Central Washington University.

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