Wisconsin Teaching Fellow

April 16, 2025

UW-Parkside Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts, Theatre Arts, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1987-1988 OPID Director, 1998-2008 My story will be different from other former participants in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars programs. My connection to SoTL is not as a practitioner, but rather in my role as Director of OPID from 1998-2008. […]

April 8, 2025

 Universities of Wisconsin System     Director, Office of Professional and Instructional Development,  Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Parkside), 2000-01 Interconnections Faculty College 2000 at UW-Richland Center was my introduction not only to the year-long Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars (I was a fellow), but to OPID. It was my first experience of an OPID-sponsored program, and I […]

April 7, 2025

Oregon State University Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Psychological Science, Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Green Bay), 2001-02   Making the transition from a research one university which downplayed and to some extent ignored the role of teaching to the University of Wisconsin Green Bay (UWGB) […]

April 7, 2025

University of New Mexico ProfessorBritish and Irish Literary Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow(UW-Green Bay), 2001-02 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2012-13   I was fortunate to be hired by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1999 for a tenure-track position because it provided me with access to a vanguard movement in SoTL. I had always […]

April 7, 2025

UW-River Falls Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2001-02 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2009-10 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2012-18   I arrived at UWRF in the fall of 1999 planning to continue the disciplinary research I was trained to do as a graduate […]

April 7, 2025

Rollins College Director, Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (University of Wisconsin-Barron County), 2001-02 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar (University of Wisconsin-Barron County), 2006-07 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2006-11   When I was in graduate school, I was part of a year-long, university-wide program for graduate students who’d won the campus’s teaching […]

April 4, 2025

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Associate Dean, College of Business Administration, and Professor of Political Science and Public Administration Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Green Bay), 2011-12 From Lecture to Learning My engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars program profoundly influenced my approach to being a college professor. […]

April 4, 2025

UW-La Crosse Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning at the University of UW- Lacrosse Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1986-87 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 1997-2000 If we don’t know how we learn, how on earth do we know how to teach? L. Raphael Reif, President of […]

April 3, 2025

 UW-Stevens Point Katz Distinguished Professor of Psychology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2006-07 Wisconsin Teaching Scholars, 2010-11 Participation in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) Program as both a Fellow and Scholar was instrumental in the overall development of my teaching career, scholarly productivity, and professional networking. As a social scientist, the ability to be supported […]

April 3, 2025

Fairleigh Dickinson University Professor of History Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Stout), 2004-05 A True Blessing, But Not Without Its Curses: The Influence of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows Program on My Academic Career Let me begin by stating unequivocally that my time as a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (WTF) way back in 2004-5 was one of the most […]