OPID Executive Committee Ballot Form

Sylvia Tiala

Director | Nakatani Teaching and Learning Center, UW-Stout

Statement: I am interested in serving on the executive committee so that I may continue to have a voice in helping support and strengthen OPID initiatives and Fay Akindes’ work. This includes promoting OPID events on my own campus, collaborating with other center directors in programming professional development, and advocating for OPID to have an integrated and equal voice with initiatives as the UW-System level.
If elected to serve on OPID’s Executive committee I hope to contribute in several ways. First, I provide input from the perspective of the UW-System’s only polytechnic university. Second, I can provide a perspective of both an instructor and a teaching/learning center who has seen over a decade of budget cuts and administrative turn over and the resulting impact on instructors’ morale and engagement in professional development. Third, I am willing to help plan, organize, and facilitate professional development programming as needed. Finally, I believe that I bring a perspective of being “process driven” to achieve goals. I am routinely trying to analyze what goals I, and organizations I belong to, are trying to achieve. My work and training with “collective impacts” provides a lens through which I analyze what partners, policies, and actions are needed to achieve stated goals.
Please know whether or not I am elected to the OPID advisory council I will continue to be a strong advocate for and supporter of OPID and its work within the UW-System.

Jamie White-Farnham

Director | Jim Dan Hill Library & Markwood CLIC, UW- Superior

Statement: I am a faculty member in the Writing Program and Center Director at UW-Superior, where I have served as a Center Director and on the OPID Advisory Board for five years. During that time on OPID, I have served on the signature programs committee. My strengths are enthusiasm, listening, asking tough questions, and getting things done. My favorite thing about OPID is the link it provides to our amazing UW network of colleagues and the support that offers. I would be honored to serve on the e-board. Thank you for your consideration.

Please cast your vote before May 3, 2024

Questions regarding the OPID Advisory Council and Executive Committee can be directed to Fay Akindes, Director, Systemwide Professional & Instructional Development, 608-263-2684.

For technical support contact:

Erin McGroarty, Program Associate, Office of Academic Affairs, UW System, OPID@uwsa.edu, (608) 262-8778.