Wisconsin Teaching Fellow

July 1, 2025

UW-La Crosse Professor of English and First-Year Writing Program Coordinator Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2012-13 I can still remember the coffee shop I was working in as I carefully crafted my application for the WTFS Program. I was desperate for Bill Cerbin, Carnegie Scholar and director of UWL’s Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning, to be […]

July 1, 2025

University of Colorado Colorado Springs Professor of Economics Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-Parkside), 2015-16 I was a Wisconsin Teaching Scholar in 2015 -16 from UW-Parkside. By then, I had already taught for 25 years and had been promoted to full professor. However, I had never felt that my teaching was up to par. Being in an […]

July 1, 2025

UW-Green Bay Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (2012-2013) (University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan) Wisconsin Teaching Scholar (2017-2018) (University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan) Embracing Technicolor in Teaching and Learning What I love most about the WTFS program is the space to think about, talk about, and even fail at, teaching interventions–or, more […]

July 1, 2025

UW-Madison Professor, Dairy Systems Management Affiliate Faculty, The Nelson Institute Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2001 Wisconsin Teaching Scholars, 2009 In writing this essay I hope to share with you, dear readers, the central role that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has played in my professional growth and development as a member of the University […]

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 […]