Wisconsin Teaching Fellow

April 3, 2025

Pennsylvania State University Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW-La Crosse), 2011-12 My participation in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) program was a formative experience that profoundly influenced my approach to higher education. The WTFS program, combined with my […]

April 3, 2025

UW-La Crosse Assistant Professor, Comparative Animal Physiology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2023-2024 Finding Belongingness as a STEM Educator   The Wisconsin Teaching and Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) program is a meta experience where instructors can both experience and explore pedagogical innovation. The WTFS program is also a community of practice by which participants can support one […]

April 3, 2025

UW-Stevens Point Professor of History Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2012-2013 Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2016-2017 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2021-2026 Embodying Hope, Play, and Connection!: My SoTL Journey and WTFS As I reflect on SoTL in my educator career, I am transported to my childhood and my first understandings about the power of teachers and […]

April 3, 2025

Ohio University Chair,Analytics &InfromationSystems; O Bleness Professor of Analytics & Infromation Systems Wisconsin Teaching Fellow (UW–Green Bay) , 2013-14 Transformative Teaching: How the Wisconsin Teaching Fellow Program Shaped My SoTL Perspective Being a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow in 2013 was a transformative experience that deepened my understanding of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The […]

March 27, 2025

University of Denver Director of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Faculty Learning Communities Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, UW Colleges (Fond du Lac), 2018-19   Everything changed for me, that one May, when I walked into a SoTL workshop during the teaching pre-conference in my discipline facilitated by Regan Gurung. My PhD officially conferred a mere […]

March 26, 2025

UW-Milwaukee Professor Emeritus of Communication Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1995-1996 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows, 2002-2003   When I was a new professor, I suspect that I was an ineffective teacher for many of my students, in spite of the fact that I spent hours carefully preparing for each class. In retrospect, there were legitimate reasons for this […]

March 26, 2025

UW-Whitewater Professor of Biology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2014-15 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2019-2026 The Transformative Power of WTFS: A Personal Journey How I Found WTFS My introduction to the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program (WTFS) began by happy accident. As a new faculty member, I was seeking opportunities to enhance my teaching […]

March 26, 2025

UW-Oshkosh Chair and Professor of Theatre Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2013-14 The Story of a Theatre Professor’s Teaching and Learning Journey A narrative can be defined as a detailed written account of connected events or as an artform of storytelling often in the format of a biography. In telling my individual story, I do so from […]

March 26, 2025

UW-Green Bay Professor, Political Science, Global Studies,and Democracy and Justice Studies Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2012-13   As I reflect back on my career since I participated in WTFS about 10 years ago (2012-13), I am struck at how different my professional interests are now compared to my early career priorities, including the dramatic shift in […]

March 26, 2025

University of Alaska Southeast Interim Dean, School of Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Social Sciences Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 1999-2000 Co-Director, Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars, 2018-2020 Interim Dean by Accident, SoTL by Design After five months at my new institution, I became interim Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. I never […]