Steven L. VanderStaay

Steve VanderStaay is a teaching and learning specialist at Western Washington University. He served for 12 years as Western’s Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, a position which included responsibility for the university’s first-year retention and academic success initiatives. His awards include a Spencer/National Academy of Education post-doctoral research fellowship, an NSF grant for improving first-year student recruitment and success in Engineering programs, and a student nomination for Western’s distinguished teaching award. He is based in Bellingham, Washington.