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Marcy Brown Marsden

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Midwestern State University

Dr. Marcy Brown Marsden is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Midwestern State University (MSU Texas).  She previously served as a dean of the McCoy College of Science, Mathematics and Engineering at MSU Texas. For 18 years she was faculty at the University of Dallas, and in administration was associate dean and Biology department chairman.  At MSU she has taught nonmajors biology courses, upper-level and graduate-level biology, and in the Redwine Honors Program.  In administration she has served on numerous search committees, chaired accreditation planning and compliance committees, has been a Title IX investigator and monitored environmental regulations compliance, and was a member of budget oversight, strategic enrollment, and faculty workload committees. As provost, she is developing initiatives for new programs, including partnerships with Sheppard Air Force Base to serve military partners by providing educational opportunities to active duty military, veterans, spouses, and dependents.

Dr. Brown Marsden is a field biologist working in partnership with local, state, and national organizations at the interface between science and society, with applications toward ecotourism and conservation.  After previous research projects in Alaska, on Alcatraz Island, and in Costa Rica, she studied the rare non photosynthetic orchid Hexalectris in Texas.  As a researcher she has consulted on exhibits for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Trinity River Audubon Center and Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center.  She has interest in birds in art and has worked with the Wichita Falls Museum of Art and conducted a study for the Dallas Museum of Art for the birds of the Wittgenstein Vitrine by Carl Otto Czeschka.  Dr. Brown Marsden served as a consultant for parks projects, including park design for the cities of Dallas, Southlake, Irving, and Wichita Falls.

Off campus, Dr. Brown Marsden has served on the boards of nonprofit and city organizations.  She was given the Callison Award in 2003 by Audubon for her contributions to environmental public policy through her board service.  She chaired the City of Irving Parks and Recreation Board  Irving Tree Board was chair of the Parks Board for the City of Wichita Falls and member of the Lake Wichita Revitalization Committee.  In 2011 she was named a “cool scientist” for D Magazine’s series on Dallas’ Big Thinkers.  Nationally she frequently serves on the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship panel in Washington, D.C. For ACAD she contributed a chapter titled “Understanding Policy in Higher Education to Manage Risk and Achieve Equity” for the Resource Handbook for Academic Deans.

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