Dr. Nancy Marchand-Martella is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at UCCS. Prior to coming to UCCS, Provost Marchand-Martella served as the Suzi and Dale Gallagher Dean of the College of Education at Purdue University for 4 years. At Purdue, Marchand-Martella led the College of Education’s Innovation Initiative, which is the most comprehensive change in over two decades to the teacher education curriculum spanning five colleges.

Dr. Marchand-Martella has over 30 years of experience working with students at the preK-12 and university levels. She is widely published in the area of academic remediation with a particular focus on literacy. She is an author of several textbooks on instruction, behavior management, and research methods along with reading programs for at-risk students through McGraw-Hill and is a first-generation college graduate.