Wisconsin Teaching Fellow
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Darci Thoune
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 […]
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Farida Chowdhury Khan
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 […]
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Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier
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 […]
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Michel Wattiaux
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 […]
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Lisa Kornetsky
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. […]
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Fay Yokomizo Akindes
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 […]
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Regan A. R. Gurung
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) […]
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Aeron Haynie
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 […]
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Cyndi Kernahan
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 […]
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Nancy Chick
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 […]