CWU Names Associate Provost for Accreditation, Academic Planning, and Assessment

Bernadette Jungblut will join Central Washington University as associate provost for accreditation, academic planning, and assessment on March 1.

In announcing her appointment, Stephen Hulbert, CWU provost and vice president for academic and student life, said, “She brings broad executive experience to the university, especially in the areas of planning, assessment, and accreditation. I look forward to her taking a strong leadership role in these critically important administrative areas.”

At CWU, Jungblut will lead university efforts in the areas of accreditation, academic program planning and assessment, strategic planning, and general education. It’s similar to the work she did at West Virginia University (WVU) where she was the WVU executive director for academic success initiatives and the first-year experience, and university assessment officer in the Office of the Provost. Jungblut also has experience working with Student Support Services and the McNair Scholars Program, two federally funded initiatives that are also offered at CWU.

“I was a low-income, first generation in college student and am married to a low-income, first-generation, person of color,” she noted. “The opportunity to serve students from backgrounds similar to ours was—and remains—deeply important to me.”

In terms of student success, she says one of her greatest joys has been seeing students investigate subjects of interest to them through their undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral research.

Jungblut received her bachelor’s degree at Binghamton University and her master’s and PhD degrees at Rice University, all in political science. She has also worked for the New York State Attorney General’s Office; Commercial Data International, Inc.; Bowling Green State University; and the University of Central Florida.

Media contact: Robert Lowery, director of Radio Services and Integrated Communications, 509-963-1487, loweryr@cwu.edu

January 20, 2016