Renee serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Program Growth and is the chief assistant to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in support of establishing and driving strategic priorities, providing oversight of distance and continuing education budgets, policies, and initiatives.  She is responsible for building consensus and developing collaborative working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, administrators, and academic departments to gather input, make recommendations, and provide support for growth initiatives.

Prior to joining UW-Stevens Point, Renee was responsible for enterprise learning technologies for UW System campuses and led a very successful systemwide digital transformation project that identified and synthesized emerging trends in technology with stakeholders’ needs for teaching and learning to design and build the UW System's Digital Learning Environment (DLE). 

Renee was also with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for 11 years, first as a full-time Lecturer in Marketing teaching face-to-face, hybrid, and online/blended course formats beginning in 2003. In 2010, she joined the institution’s Central IT group as Director, and was responsible for campus learning and classroom technologies, as well as IT training.

Prior to her career in higher education, Renee enjoyed more than 15 years of business experience working for public and private companies including Heidrick & Struggles, Arthur Andersen, and Arrow Companies. She earned an MBA from UW-Whitewater with dual emphasis in marketing and technology & training, and a BA from Ripon College in French.

You can reach Renee at rpfeifer@uwsp.edu​ or 715-346-​4048.

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