Kris+Bulcroft

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=Kris Bulcroft=

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Kris Bukcroft, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Western WA University Bellingham, WA 98225

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Kris Bulcroft, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Western WA University

As Vice Provost Kris Bulcroft has oversighjt for a wide range of programs and projects that support teaching and learning at Western. Dr. Bulcroft is also Western’s representative on many of the statewide higher education initiatives such as accountability, transfer police, and high demand enrollment funding. She holds a B.A. degree from Pacific Lutheran University, M/ A. from Eastern Washington University, and Ph.D. from the University of minnesota. Her field of study is Sociology, with emphasis in family life course transitions, and family rituals. From 1986-88, Kris Bulcroft was a NIMH post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Institute on Aging and worked as a Research Scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Dr. Bulcroft has received Fulbright awards for research and teaching in Canada and the Slovak Republic, and she is currently a reviewer for U.S. Fulbright proposals for Central Europe. Her life outside the e academy includes working as a junior high teacher, volunteering in a number of civic organizations, and hosting international students and visitors in her home in Sedro-Woolley, WA.