Stase Wells is Marine Corps University's Director, Academic Support Division. She is also the university's Institutional Accreditation Liaison with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Mrs. Wells brings sixteen years of professional military education experience at Marine Corps University to her role as Director of the Academic Support Division. Prior faculty roles included Communication Assistant Professor within Marine Corps University's Leadership Communication Skills Center and representation on the MCU Faculty Council. She is currently a member of the MCU Speakers Bureau and has conducted speaking engagements in support of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Veterans Benefits Administration, Marine Corps Recruiting Station Albany, Training and Education Command Headquarters Battalion, Naval Community College, Marine Corps Systems Command, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and the Personnel Recovery Education and Training Center.
Mrs. Wells holds a Master of Science in Global and International Education from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Science in English from Central Michigan University. She is also certified in Teaching Essentials by the Air University Teaching and Learning Center (Vector) and Generative AI for Educators by Google.
Mrs. Wells is the author of “Building Trust and Success through Dialogic Feedback in Joint Professional Military Education” in Developing Military Learners’ Communication Skills Using the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2022) and a co-author of the Marine Corps University Communications Style Guide, 4th - 15th editions (2010-2025). Her current research explores neuroscience-informed best practices for teaching and learning in joint professional military education, with a particular focus on outcomes-based education and learning occurring in classified environments.