Wisconsin Teaching Scholar

April 3, 2025

UW-Whitewater Professor of Psychology Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2014-15 I entered the WTFS program at a time of professional transition. As a tenured professor who had been a department chair for many years, I was looking for a new challenge as I returned to a full-time faculty role. Teaching was what initially drew me to an […]

April 3, 2025

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Associate Professor of English Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2022-23   As of this writing, I am about two and a half years out from Faculty College 2022, which is when my SoTL journey began with OPID and the Universities of Wisconsin. I participated in WTFS in 2022-23. Our events (Faculty College, Summer […]

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 […]

March 27, 2025

UW-La Crosse Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2015-16   SoTL research was unknown to me until 2012. I teach organic chemistry, and the prevailing attitude among instructors in that discipline has long been, “Devil take the hindmost.” Very high attrition continues to be reported from organic chemistry courses at various institutions, and the […]

March 27, 2025

UW-Milwaukee Senior Teaching Faculty, English Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2019-20   At the time of this writing, it has been more than five years since I participated in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars (WTFS) Program as the scholar for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) during the 2019-20 academic year. I was part of what could […]

March 25, 2025

UW-Milwaukee Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2018-19 My Journey as a Wisconsin Teaching Scholar I was thrilled to receive an email from the Director of Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee notifying me that I was selected as a Wisconsin Teaching Scholar for the […]

March 7, 2025

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Associate Professor and Women’s and Gender Studies Coordinator Wisconsin Teaching Scholar, 2023-24   When I arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2016, I had no inkling that the scholarship of teaching and learning would come to dominate my research agenda. I simply knew that teaching would take up the […]

March 7, 2025

UW-Green Bay Director of CATL Professor of Psychology Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2007-08   I began my tenure-track teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UW-Green Bay in 2002. Although I had taught full-time for two years prior to my arrival, I had never before heard the term “scholarship of teaching and learning” (SoTL). […]