Leadership
Marc VanOverbeke, PhD | Acting Dean
Marc VanOverbeke is the Acting Dean of the College of Education and Associate Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He provided stability as interim dean of the College of Education during the pandemic from 2020-21. For nine years, he served as the college’s associate dean for academic affairs, and he stepped up for two stints as acting associate dean for student success.
Since joining UIC in 2016, VanOverbeke has repeatedly been tapped to support critical university efforts, including the recent Committee to Reimagine General Education at UIC and the Fall 2020 COVID Planning Taskforce. VanOverbeke received the 2010 Linda Eisenmann Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in the History of Higher Education from the History of Education Society, and in 2026, he authored “Playing the Game: How State Colleges Used Athletics to Expand Educational Opportunity.”
