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Susan M. Coultrap-McQuin was appointed Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the State University of New York at Oswego in 2004. Reporting to President Deborah F. Stanley, Dr. Coultrap-McQuin collaborates with members of the President’s Council to provide institutional leadership for the college. Dr. Coultrap-McQuin oversees the Academic Affairs Division of about 8300 undergraduate and graduate students and about 500 full and part-time faculty and staff, organized into the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Schools of Education and Business, Offices of Graduate Studies and Research, Continuing Education, International Education Programs, Research and Sponsored Programs, Learning Services, Institutional Research, Honors, Experienced Based Education, First Year Program, Transfer Services, as well as the Registrar and Penfield Library. |
Since coming to SUNY Oswego, Provost Coultrap-McQuin has promoted annual planning for continuing improvements in educational programs, expanded opportunities for student and faculty scholarly and creative activities, and encouraged greater attention to diversity in the curriculum and in faculty hiring. In collaboration with Faculty Assembly, she has established new committees for academic quality, intellectual integrity, and hybrid course teaching.She is working to strengthen personnel policies, procedures and professional development opportunities for faculty. Dr. Coutrap-McQuin chaired the Library Visioning Committee in 2005-2006 and is organizing efforts to establish engineering programs at Oswego. She is promoting external partnerships for the College and, in collaboration with the Dean of Students and many faculty and staff, is working to strengthen campus civic engagement activities. Provost Coultrap-McQuin has launched an advisory board for internationalizing the curriculum.
Dr. Coultrap-McQuin has been appointed to the New York Sea Grant Board of Directors. Previously she served on boards of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, the Minnesota Council on Economic Education, the Minnesota ACE Network, and the Minnesota Humanities Commission. She also served as a consultant evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges.
Before coming to Oswego, Provost Coultrap-McQuin served as the dean of social and behavioral sciences at Minnesota State University, Mankato. At MSU she promoted active and applied learning, service learning, internships, study abroad, and research opportunities for students. She expanded attention to student advising, cultural diversity and global perspectives, and the use of information technologies. She increased faculty diversity, improved hiring and other personnel practices, and expanded professional development activities. Dr. Coultrap-McQuin led an active college advisory board and took a lead in fund-raising efforts. She led initiatives that resulted in the establishment of the first university technology plan and an enrollment management plan.
Prior to her work at MSU, Dr. Coultrap-McQuin served as a program director, department head, study abroad director, and acting associate dean at the University of Minnesota Duluth. There she was promoted through the ranks to full professor and received an outstanding faculty award from the Student Association. She also taught for Michigan State, the University of Maryland in Germany, and the Peace Corps in the Philippines.
Provost Coultrap-McQuin has published three books and numerous articles and has given many presentations. Her book, Doing Literary Business, won an “outstanding academic book” award from Choice magazine in 1992. She earned her doctorate in American Studies from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree in English and French from Iowa State University.
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