Stephen Biscotte

Stephen Biscotte, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education: General Education and Operations
104 Burruss Hall (0717)
540-231-4451
biscotsm@vt.edu

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

Dr. Biscotte is the President of the Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS) and 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 Instituions: Accelerating Systemic Change in Higher Education, The Teaching Professor, and IUPUI's Trends in Assessment. He leads workshops and teaches several courses on Gen Ed Reform for WEAVE Academy. 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. 

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 PhD in Curriculum and Instruction: Educational Psychology, both from Virginia Tech.