As Provost, Dr. Catherine Kodat leads the vision and strategy for an academic portfolio that includes innovative curricula, high-impact practices, and valuable experiential learning. As Dean, she ensures faculty have the appropriate resources and pedagogical support, while she oversees the teams across Academic Affairs to continue producing outstanding outcomes. Dr. Kodat joined Marist in May 2023 from Lawrence University, where she was Provost and Dean of Faculty and helped adopt more inclusive training and universal design for learning in the humanities, the humanistic social sciences, and natural sciences. She began in higher education at Hamilton College, where she was a professor of English and American Studies for more than 15 years. And, she has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lewis & Clark College and Dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of the Arts.