Deans & Senior Staff

Carolyn Kelley, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs
377k Education Building, (608) 263-5733
carolyn.kelley@wisc.edu
Duties: Program quality and accountability (e.g., program reviews; processes; and rules for approval of new courses, programs, and certificates), strategic planning and support for health cluster departments, summer session

Julie Mead, Associate Dean for Education
377e Education Building (608) 263-3405
jmead@education.wisc.edu
Duties: Program support (strategic planning; support for development of new programs, certificates, and non-pooled programs) for education cluster departments, referrals to resources for online course development

John Hitchcock, Associate Dean for the Arts
377c Education Building, (608) 772-7955
jhitchcock@wisc.edu
Duties: Program support (strategic planning; support for development of new programs, certificates, and non-pooled programs) for arts cluster departments, questions related to the intersection between the School of Education and the Arts Institute

Bill Hoyt, Associate Dean for Health
377f Education Building, (608) 262-0462
wthoyt@wisc.edu
Duties: Program support for health cluster departments

Melissa Amos-Landgraf, Associate Dean for Administration
L259g Education Building, (608) 262-4474
amoslandgraf@wisc.edu

Duties: Administration and budget, human resources, institutional research, administrative forum, contracts, contract administration, space and remodeling, facilities, parking

Colleen Howes, Associate Dean for Communications, Advancement and Engagement

181 Education building, (608) 263-8349
colleen.howes@wisc.edu
Duties: Communications, marketing plan, alumni communications, website updates and advertising

Anna Lewis, Co-Chief Information Officer and Co-director of MERIT
368b Teacher Education building, (608) 263-8199
anna.lewis@wisc.edu

Duties: Education resources, technology, library

Bob Mathieu, Associate Dean for Research, Director of WCER
Educational Sciences Building, (608) 263-4203
mathieu@astro.wisc.edu

Duties: Research administration, human subjects protection, conflict of interest, graduate school link, Education and Social/Behavioral Science Institutional Review Board

Francesca Rodriquez, Coordinator-Strategic Programs 
107 Education Building, (608) 262-7959
frodriquez@wisc.edu

Rich Halverson, Associate Dean for Innovation, Outreach and Partnerships
264 Teacher Education building, (608) 265-4772
halverson@education.wisc.edu

Duties: Outreach and partnerships for the School of Education, the Network

Christina Klawitter, Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs
139 Education Building, (608) 265-2745
cpklawitter@wisc.edu

Duties: Student services, undergraduate programs, Programs Committee, scholarships, equity and diversity

Brenda Spychalla, Co-Chief Information Officer and Co-director of MERIT
109d Teacher Education building, (608) 265-2834
brenda.spychalla@wisc.edu

Duties: Education resources, technology, library

Kimber Wilkerson, Faculty Director for Teacher Education
407 Education Building, (608) 263-4362
klwilkerson@wisc.edu 

Duties: Oversight to teacher preparation programs, compliance with licensing requirements, leadership to the Coordinating Committee on Professionals in Education, liaison to Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Teacher Education Evaluation ad hoc task force