Dr. Marius Boboc has been the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Missouri St. Louis, and Professor of Educator Preparation and Leadership in the same academic unit since July 2025. Prior to that, his work experience includes being a faculty member (from the Assistant Professor rank to that of Professor), Director of the Office of Student Learning Assessment, Vice Provost for Academic Planning, and Department Chair twice (in different departments) at Cleveland State University (CSU) from 2002 to 2025. At CSU, his teaching load included undergraduate and graduate courses in general methods of teaching, curriculum theory, student assessment, classroom management, international/comparative education, urban education policy, leadership and change management, and qualitative research. His research interests relate to online instruction (ranging from design to implementation to evaluation), assessment and accreditation in higher education, postmodern education, teacher preparation reform, and higher education leadership and community engagement. His research has been published in books by Sage Publications and Cengage Learning, book chapters by Information Age Publishing and ICI Global, journal articles in Brock Education Journal, TechTrends, International Journal of Learning and Development, International Journal of Education, Journal of Engaged Learning, Electronic Journal of eLearning, Science Scope, and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, as well as book reviews by Teachers College Record. Research currently under contract focuses on the use of assessment data to inform curriculum development in higher education, as well as postmodernism in education. To date, Marius has also presented at over 50 international and national professional conferences ranging from the American Educational Research Association to the Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education to the Association for Institutional Research, to name just a few. Marius earned his M.A. in Teacher Leadership from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.