Biography

Dr. Katy E. Marre
Member, Board of Trustees

Dr. Katy E. Marre is Professor of English and Former Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Dayton. Her distinguished academic experience includes developing, coordinating, organizing, and reviewing programs and proposals dealing with issues within Graduate Studies & Research. Examples include originating the idea and co-authoring the initiative to name a Graduate School at the University of Dayton. Dr. Marre worked with University academic departments to develop three new Ph.D. programs, three new Master's programs, and several Certificate programs. She chaired and administered evaluation of the Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships for the past seventeen years, and faculty research grants for four years. Dr. Marre planned and established GRANTLIB, a grants locating service for faculty at the University, which customizes a Faculty Research Interest Database for all faculty. She is prolific in her publishing and presenting on matters concerning Joyce, Frost, higher education accreditation, and graduate program development, including graduate assessment. Representing the University of Dayton, she served on the Ohio Board of Regents Advisory Committee on Graduate Study for twenty-one years. She was recognized by the Ohio Board of Regents for her service to the Committee. At present she is a consultant to the Ohio Board of Regents Secondary to College Articulation Committee.

Dr. Marre's service on various boards has included six years as a member of the Objectives and Purposes Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Dayton, two years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools, member of the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools and Chair of the Association in 1999, and five years as the single external member to the Academic Council of Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, a distance learning institution. Dr. Marre has extensive experience as a member and chair on the Ohio Board of Regents Advisory Committee on Graduate Study, 1983 to 2004.

Dr. Marre's work with Accreditation includes serving as a member and chair of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association's Institutional Actions Council. She has been selected as a Consultant-Evaluator for the HLC of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), serving as team member and team chair for over 48 accreditation visits. She has been a conductor of mentoring sessions for new Consultant-Evaluators and the Self-Study in the HLC Professional Development Program at the 1993, 1996, 1997, and 1998 Annual Meetings of the HLC in Chicago. Dr. Marre has presented at the 2000, 2003, and 2004 Annual Meetings of the HLC, with seminars on such topics as "Conducting the Self-Study Process and Writing the Report for Initial Candidacy." She is a member of the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) Admission Panel.  She leads the Reaffirmation of Accreditation process for the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). In April 2007 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the NCA of the Higher Learning Commission. Dr. Marre has also done accreditation visits for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and program reviews for the American Osteopathic Association.

Other professional ventures for Dr. Marre include the establishment and chairing of the session on James Joyce at the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chair of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools evaluating twenty-five Master's theses, and Examiner and Senior Examiner for the Ohio Award for Excellence and Examiner for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Programs. Dr. Marre was a Danforth Fellow, co-sponsoring two funded proposals to the Danforth College Project Fund. She is an invited consultant to associations and institutions requesting guidance in governance, organizational structure, accreditation, faculty development, student academic achievement, and graduate and research programs.

Dr. Marre earned a B.A. degree at Sophia College, University of Bombay, an M.A. degree from Wilson College, University of Bombay, attended Bryn Mawr College, and received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She attended the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Administration at Bryn Mawr College, a selected, four-week residential program with units in academic environment, external environment, institutional environment, and professional development. In addition to her membership on the American Public University System Board of Trustees, she served as a Board of Trustees member of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago for four years, now serving as an Emeritus Board member, and is currently a Public Member of the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association.

For more information about Dr. Marre, please visit her Web site at http://academic.udayton.edu/katyMarre/.