Dean's Office

Malcolm B. Butler is Professor and Dean of the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte. Butler was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. He spent his childhood in south Louisiana with his eight siblings and loving mother, Adlean F. Butler, and father, the late Lee Butler, Jr. Butler earned a B.S. in in Physics from Southern […]

Caroline Freeman is the Director of Communications for Cato College of Education. Freeman has worn many hats over her career, including 10+ years in the service and hospitality industries while moonlighting as a sports journalist on the press bench of the University of Florida gymnastics team for multiple outlets. She’s started three of her own […]

Tisha Greene is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education & Teacher Preparation in the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte. She also teaches in the Department of Educational Leadership and serves on the executive board for the Mebane Early Literacy Center. She is a two-time UNC Charlotte graduate, having earned a B.A. in […]

Jennifer Jones is the Post-Award Business Services Coordinator in the Cato College of Education. Jennifer helps with the initiation of various post-award actions. For example, she helps with processing release time and summer salary charged to grants. Jennifer also helps with budget reconciliations. She initiates budget revisions and key personnel changes, and is the point of contact to help initiate assumptions of risk (AORs) and no cost extensions (NCEs). For grants with cost-share requirements, Jennifer can help faculty and staff get their cost share certified.

Scott Kissau is the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education in the Cato College of Education. Dr. Kisssau promotes and supports research and the pursuit of external funding among students, faculty, and staff in the Cato College of Education. In this role, he offers grant development workshops, opportunities for proposal development mentoring and SEED funding, and meets weekly with the College’s grant support team to review requests for support (tickets) and ensure these requests are being addressed in a timely manner. Dr. Kissau serves as the College’s liaison to the Division of Research.