Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Ph.D., is the Director for Assessment of Student and Instructor Experience in the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center, where he leads equity-minded assessment and evaluation programs and services that support data-informed transformation of pedagogical practices and curriculum necessary needed to drive student success and improve the instructor and student experience with the teaching enterprise at UCLA. He spearheads efforts to revise course evaluation, focusing on actionable feedback and reshaping TA evaluations to better support graduate student instructors. He and his team also capture and equitably contextualize the diverse lived experiences of our students to motivate systemic change to ensure all learners thrive in achieving their academic goals at UCLA.
He is a seasoned administrator with 30 years of professional experience in higher education, including staffing the newly-formed Undergraduate Council within the UCLA Academic Senate for four years and later serving as the Director for Educational Assessment in various units within the College.
He is a triple Bruin, including a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change. His research interests span diverse areas including curriculum reform, student and instructor development, and documenting the UCLA student experience.