UTeach

Nicole Barrios

Senior Academic Advisor

UTeach Academic Advisor for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, and Teaching Option Students

Nicole serves as the Senior Academic Advisor in the College of Natural Sciences UTeach Program advising students and coordinating scholarships and teaching certificates.

Prior to joining UTeach, Nicole was a Success Coach in the School of Natural Sciences at St. Edward’s University were she coached and advised undergraduate students, supervised graduate student interns, served as Honors Program Liaison, and instructed the Effective College Learning course for students on first-time academic probation and the Pre-Health Professions First Year Seminar.

Nicole is a graduate of the Student Affairs in Higher Education Master's Program at Texas State University. Prior to entering the higher education field, she worked as a journalist at the Austin American-Statesman newspaper after earning a Bachelor of Science in Journalism at Texas State as a proud Terry Scholar.

A favorite quote:

"The beautiful thing about learning is no one can take it away from you." -B.B. King.

Melanie Saffer

Academic Program Coordinator

Cate Logan

Senior Administrative Associate

Sarah Wenzel

Senior Administrative Associate

I’m the Senior Administrative Associate for UTeach. I handle primarily accounts payable as well as handling the student and hourly HR and contractor management. I’ve been at the university for 21 years. My last position was at the Charles A. Dana Center where I spent most of that time handling university financials.

I reside in Paige, TX with my husband and son. Agriculture is a passion and lifestyle of ours and together we run a small feed and cattle operation. And a favorite quote of mine is;