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Marc Austin

Vice Provost and Managing Director for Montclair Unbound, Montclair Unbound, Academic Affairs

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Susan A. Cole Hall
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austinma@montclair.edu
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Dr. Austin serves as the Inaugural Vice Provost and Managing Director for Montclair Unbound, a flagship initiative designed to reimagine higher education through innovative technologies, flexible learning models, and student-centered design. Launched to accelerate Montclair State University’s digital transformation, Montclair Unbound strengthens and expands Montclair Online while building new pathways to serve working adults, community-college transfers, and lifelong learners. The initiative brings a strategic, operational, and entrepreneurial capacity to the university, identifying and removing barriers to access, improving the learner experience, and enabling new forms of academic delivery across the institution.
The long-term vision is to transform Montclair into a truly blended, hybrid university where online, onsite, and experience-based learning integrate seamlessly to meet students where they are and prepare them for the future. Through partnerships with employers, government agencies, and community colleges, Montclair Unbound will expand degree and non-degree offerings tailored to emerging labor-market needs and create new pathways that connect education to meaningful career opportunities.
In this role, Dr. Austin provides strategic vision, leadership, and oversight for all Montclair Unbound initiatives. He guides the design, development, marketing, recruitment, and delivery of online, hybrid, and distance education programs, as well as the student success systems that support them.

Specialization

> Online program management, educational assessment and student-centric design thinking
> Academic innovation and corporate partnerships
> Strategy formulation, planning and organizational transformation

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