Megan Bell serves as a Research Associate in the College of Education for the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations. She is responsible for directing the US Department of Education Strengthening Institutions grant. 

Bell is the former director of assessment, policy and efficiency, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance, and Executive Director of Community Learning and Assessment. In this role she was responsible for the Department of Residential Life and Housing which houses about 1,700 students as well as the Family Development Center and serving as the Division Liaison to enrollment management and academic units to develop partnerships related to student success.

Bell has also served as the assistant director and director of the University Center and as assistant director of the University Memorial Center at CU Boulder. She also has held student affairs positions at Whittier College, Whittier, California, and the University of California, Riverside.