SoTL Mentors to the World

SoTL Mentors to the World
These SoTL Mentors welcome people to contact them about ideas for SoTL projects, or about SoTL projects in progress. Simply email a mentor to begin an email exchange. When a mentor cannot accept any more inquiries at the moment, that will be noted.
	Nancy Chick nancy.chick@vanderbilt.edu Areas: starting SoTL, signature pedagogies, SoTL in literary studies, close reading of student texts, humanities-based SoTL and SoTL genres Assistant Director Center for Teaching Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37203 I am a SoTL scholar in literary studies who takes disciplinary approaches to SoTL seriously, but also works with SoTL across the disciplines. On one hand, I value close reading of student texts and SoTL genres that capture the richness and depth of such analyses. On the other, I co-directed a statewide SoTL program (26 institutions) to help colleagues from all disciplines.
	Richard Gale rgale@mtroyal.ca Areas: All Discipline: theatre; general education Director, Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Mount Royal University 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3E 6K6 http://www.mtroyal.ca/isotl From 2002-2007 I directed the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Higher Education Program and worked with the Integrative Learning Project. I have published and spoken widely on aesthetic literacy, integrative learning, and SoTL and have taught courses in theatre history and theory, composition and playwriting, critical pedagogy and interdisciplinary arts. My degrees are in theatre history, playwriting, drama, and liberal studies.
	Regan Gurung gurungr@uwgb.edu Areas: all (especially designing SoTL projects and analyzing classroom data) Ben J. & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Human Development & Psychology University of Wisconsin, Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Drive-MAC C312 Green Bay, WI 54311 http://www.uwgb.edu/gurungr/ Dr. Gurung has strong interests in enhancing faculty development and is Co-Director of the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Scholars Program. He was the 2009 CASE Wisconsin Professor of the year. He has published numerous articles and books on pedagogy (e.g., Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind, Gurung, Chick, & Haynie, 2009), Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Research in Practice, Gurung & Schwartz, 2009) and enjoys designing SoTL projects and analyzing classroom data.
	Bettie Higgs b.higgs@ucc.ie Areas: science learning; integrative learning; threshold concepts Academic Coordinator of Support for Teaching and Learning Ionad Bairre, Teaching and Learning Centre West Lodge, University College Cork Cork, Ireland My research profile has a dual focus in Geology and in Teaching and Learning. I was appointed a Carnegie Scholar of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2005, have been an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, UK, since 1992, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK since 2002. I was awarded the UCC President’s Award for Research into Innovative Teaching in 2002 and 2004, and secured funding for the Irish Integrative Learning Project in 2008.
	Mary Taylor Huber huber@carnegiefoundation.org Areas: humanities; social sciences. Senior Scholar Emerita and Consulting Scholar Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 51 Vista Lane Stanford, CA 94305 As a researcher at Carnegie since 1985, I have been involved in several initiatives to explore and encourage SoTL in higher education. This experience includes mentoring scholars in the CASTL fellowship program from 1998-2006. I have also written and spoken widely about the work: its evaluation; and its development in the disciplines, in academic careers, and in higher education more broadly. A cultural anthropologist by training, I am currently US editor for Arts and Humanities in Higher Education and write the book review column for Change magazine
	Anette Kolmos ak@plan.aau.dk Areas: faculty development; Problem-Based Learning; Engineering Education Research Professor, Engineering Education Research and PBL Aalborg University Fibigerstraede 13, DK-9210 Aalborg, Denmark I’m president of SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) and Chairholder for UNESCO Chair in Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education, and have a Ph.D. in Gender, Technology and Education. During the last 20 years, I’ve conducted research in changing to PBL curriculum, development of transferable skills, and faculty development. I’m associate editor for European Journal of Engineering Education, served as associate editor for Journal of Engineering Education. have published more than 150 articles.
	Gila Kurtz Gilaku@netvision.net.il Areas: E-learning, web 2.0 tools for learning Professor in-charge of the M.A. Program The Center for Academic Studies 46 Ben-Gurion Street Ramat Hasharon, Israel, 47321 I started my work in the Distance Education field in 1995 as head of the interactive television unit at the Open University of Israel. Currently, I am a professor in-charge of the M.A. Program at the School of Education, The Center for Academic Studies in Israel. I am an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) in the Graduate School in the Master of Distance Education Program. In 2006 I got the Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Recognition Award. A year later I was honored by the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) for excellence in professional practice of open, distance and e-learning. My research activities are mainly related to the implementation of online technologies within the educational process.
	Brenda Leibowitz bleibowitz@sun.ac.za Areas: qualitative research; social justice; language across the curriculum Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Stellenbosch University 15 Bosman Street Stellenbosch/Private Bag X1, 7602 South Africa I have been the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Stellenbosch University since 2003 and am responsible for the work of the First-year Academy. I have a Ph.D. on academic literacy in multilingual settings. My research interests include professional academic development, identity and higher education, action-based research, and social justice in education. I am a member of various research teams focusing on student learning, social justice, capability theory and the professional development of academics as teachers.
	Trent Maurer tmaurer@georgiasouthern.edu Areas: all Associate Professor of Child & Family Development Department of Hospitality, Tourism, and Family & Consumer Sciences Georgia Southern University P.O. Box 8021 Statesboro, GA 30460 http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~tmaurer/ My SoTL work is both disciplinary (Family Science) and interdisciplinary. I use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches, but most of my work focuses on survey-oriented projects, including web surveys. I also have an interest in SoTL and Institutional Review Board policies and procedures which can either foster or hinder SoTL work.
	Kathleen McKinney kmckinne@ilstu.edu Areas: all Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Professor of Sociology Illinois State University Box 6370 Normal IL 61790-6370 http://www.sotl.ilstu.edu I am the Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. I have publications on relationships, sexuality, and college teaching including a 2007 book on SoTL. I have served as editor of Teaching Sociology and as a Carnegie Scholar. I am a founding member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I have received several teaching awards including Illinois State University’s Outstanding University Teacher, and the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award.
	Daphne Pan ellpand@nus.edu.sg Areas: student feedback, peer review, faculty development Associate Professor, Dept of English Language & Literature Advisor, Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning Fellow, Teaching Academy National University of Singapore 7 Arts Link, AS5-05-32, Singapore 117570 I have been involved in a campus-wide project exploring perceptions of SOTL within our teaching community, with a view to building consensus about valid and viable definitions of SOTL that could inform policies on teaching and learning and, more importantly, promote reflective practice. I have looked specifically into student feedback, peer review and mentoring and collaborate work as a means of engaging colleagues in ongoing learning about teaching and learning on our campus.
	Nancy Randall nancy.randall@viu.ca Areas: SoTL question design, ethical review for academic and classroom-based inquiries, undergraduate research, SoTL & faculty development Honorary Research Associate Vancouver Island University Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Box 55, 2040 Grafton Avenue Errington, BC Canada I am keenly interested in supporting faculty understanding while enhancing institutional recognition for SoTL. Through Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching initiatives, I participated as co-leader of the Learning-centered Institutions leadership sites (2002-2006), and then coordinated the Undergraduate Research Leadership sites (2006-2009). I represented Canada as VP on the ISSOTL executive (2004-2008) and now review articles for IJ-SoTL and the Canadian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
	Anthony Rosie anthony.rosie@btinternet.com Areas: qualitative methods, narrative approaches, critical theory approaches, innovations in learning, particularly simulations Professor of Social Science Education Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics Sheffield Hallam University ‘Southbourne’, Collegiate Crescent Sheffield, S10 2BP, UK I have taught in secondary schools, further and higher education. I enjoy working with students who find learning difficult, I hold a national teaching fellowship. I have led a number of institutional teaching innovations and have been a director of the subject centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics for the HE Academy. My SOTL interests include: developing effective learning through simulations, creative writing. I am also interested in SOTL inquiries using feminist and critical theories of education.
	Beth Schwartz bschwartz@randolphcollege.edu Areas: all Thoresen Professor of Psychology, Assistant Dean of the College Randolph College 2500 Rivermont Avenue Lynchburg, VA 24503 My scholarship focuses on pedagogical research, with two SoTL focused publications: Optimizing Teaching and Learning (Gurung & Schwartz, 2009), and The Psychology of Teaching: An Empirically Based Guide to Picking, Choosing, & Using Pedagogy (Schwartz & Gurung, in press). My mentoring expertise lies in the application of SoTL in the classroom and how to develop a productive SoTL research program
	Nicola Simmons nsimmons@uwaterloo.ca Areas: SoTL and higher education; faculty development Research and Evaluation Consultant Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) , LIB328D University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 My areas of interest re: mentoring are: SoTL scholar identity/role development, professor identity/role development, adult (student) developmental psychology, qualitative research, research design, grant proposals, arts-based research. Also, reflective practice, educational and professional development, portfolio assessment. My job is to mentor faculty from all disciplines on their SoTL projects, so my range is quite large.
	Lorraine Stefani lorraine.stefani@auckland.ac.nz Areas: all Director, Center for Academic Development University of Auckland Level 6, 76 Symonds Street Private Bag 92019 Auckland 1142 New Zealand I am Professor and Director of the Centre for Academic Development (CAD) at the University of Auckland. Leading a team of over sixty staff, I’ve implemented a successful model for sustainable distributed leadership and leadership capacity building. I have extensive experience of educational change management and a high level of research output on topics including: SoTL, e-portfolios for reflective learning, assessment of student learning, student engagement and evaluating the effectiveness of academic development.
	Tris Utschig tris.utschig@cetl.gatech.edu Areas: all Discipline: Nuclear Engineering Assistant Director for the Scholarship and Assessment of Teaching and Learning Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Georgia Institute of Technology 225 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0383 I discovered the joys of teaching and learning as a Peace Corps volunteer and have studied the subject ever since. I was a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College before arriving at Georgia Tech. I publish and present on many topics including assessment, using technology in the classroom, faculty development in instructional design, teaching diversity, and peer coaching. My Ph.D.is in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
	Todd Zakrajsek toddzakrajsek@gmail.com Areas: all Discipline: Psychology Previously I was the founding Director of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching at Central Michigan University and was also the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Southern Oregon University where I also taught as a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology. I recently was the Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I received a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and publish and present widely on the topic of student learning. Currently I’m the lead facilitator for the POD Pre conference Session for New Faculty Developers, the Conference director for two national teaching conferences, and one international teaching conference.