Stephen Biscotte

Stephen Biscotte, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Curriculum
104 Burruss Hall (0717)
540-231-4451
biscotsm@vt.edu

As Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Curriculum at Virginia Tech, Dr. Stephen Biscotte provides leadership for the Pathways to General Education and First-Year Experiences program as well as oversees program evaluation and data analysis efforts across the unit of Undergraduate Education. He has taught graduate level courses in Educational Psychology and a First-Year Seminar.

Dr. Biscotte is the Past President of the Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS) and served as Co-PI on an NSF Cultivating Cultures of Ethics in STEM Grant. Dr. Biscotte's general education relevant scholarship, particularly focused on the non-STEM student experience in STEM general education courses, has appeared in The Journal of General Education, ASCN's volume on Transforming Institutions: Accelerating Systemic Change in Higher Education, The Teaching Professor, and IUPUI's Trends in Assessment. In addition to serving on and chairing external academic program review teams, he has given keynote, plenary, and concurrent sessions as well as facilitated workshops on such gen ed related topics as innovative structures, university reform efforts, and program evaluation both locally and nationally. He is co-author of the new book The General Education Guidebook.

Prior to his role at Virginia Tech, for 10 years Biscotte taught high school courses in anatomy and physiology, biology, and physical science in Roanoke, Virginia and Columbia, South Carolina. Biscotte received a bachelor’s degree in biology from James Madison University. He received a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction: Science Education and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction: Educational Psychology, both from Virginia Tech.