Biography

Mari McCarty is Executive Vice President of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU), a consortium of the 20 private colleges and universities in the state. She serves as liaison with the 24 groups operating under WAICU's umbrella and supervises all WAICU publications. As coordinator of Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for the private sector in Wisconsin, Dr. McCarty works closely with member campuses on data policy issues. She also speaks frequently to students and parents on the topic of private higher education and represents WAICU on several statewide committees. She has been with WAICU since 1995.

Prior to her current position, she taught at Buena Vista University (then Buena Vista College) in Iowa, Alaska Pacific University, and the University of Wisconsin. Her publications include Colette: The Woman, The Writer (Penn State Press, 1981), co-editor and contributor; "Possessing Female Space," Women’s Studies VIII, No. 3 (1981), co-editor and contributor; and Colette (UW Extension, 1978).

Dr. McCarty received her bachelor's degree from Middlebury College, her master's degree from Middlebury after a year of study at the Sorbonne in Paris, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.