ANSTON BOSMAN, Associate Professor of English
2023 - 2025 Faculty Fellow
Dr. Bosman's CTL Fellowship will focus on a research project that explores anti-racist and decolonial teaching of Shakespeare. He is currently partnering with a student on publications from this project and in Spring 2023 Dr. Bosman will offer a learning community emerging from this work.
Kate Follette, Assistant professor of Astronomy
2022 - 2024 Faculty Fellow
Dr. Follette’s CTL Fellowship is focused on the Astronomy major curriculum, particularly attending to successful peer collaboration, inclusive community norms, normalizing struggle and failure as part of the scientific process, and helping students develop a stronger sense of scientific identity. Dr. Follette's pedagogical research project has involved embedding effective practices and continues through assessing the impact of these practices across the Astronomy course sequence.
Kristy Gardner, Assistant Professor of COmputer Science
2022 - 2024 Faculty Fellow
As a CTL Faculty Fellow, Dr. Gardner explored the literature on pedagogical innovation and teaching practices in Computer Science (CS), especially focusing on supporting diverse learners and enhancing students’ analytical skills. During the first year of her fellowship, she developed and implemented a “Math for Computer Science,” pilot course that focuses on students’ analytical abilities early in the CS major sequence. During the current fellowship year, Dr. Gardner will continue course development; assessing and sharing out the impact of the course.
carmen granda, Senior Lecturer in Spanish
2023 - 2025 Faculty Fellow
Dr. Granda is facilitating a learning community focused on decolonizing peer review and writing workshops . Felicia Rose Chavez's work, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, will ground the learning community's fall conversation. She is also engaging in research on this topic during her CTL Fellowship.
Shu-Min Liao, Assistant Professor of Statistics
2023 - 2024 Faculty Fellow Mentor
2022 - 2023 Faculty Fellow
Dr. Liao focused her fellowship on expanding her knowledge of inclusive and student-centered teaching practices. She integrated this into developing, delivering, and gathering assessment data for a new introductory statistics course, titled, “Happy Intro Stats (STAT 136).” This course incorporated a new method for helping students acquire competency and confidence in their coding skills, while also working with student pedagogical partnerships and embedding evidence-based self-care practices within the course design.
This year Dr. Liao will serve in a faculty fellow mentor position.
Kristina Reardon, Director of the Intensive Writing Program and Senior Lecturer in English
2023 - 2024 Faculty Fellow Mentor
2022 - 2023 Faculty Fellow
As the Director of the Intensive Writing Program and Lecturer in English, Dr. Reardon works to enhance students’ sense of agency about their learning and their motivation for learning, especially in the context of writing skills across the curriculum. In her work as a CTL Faculty Fellow, she facilitated multiple learning communities exploring alternative grading approaches, with a particular focus on issues of equity and inclusion in classroom assessment.
This year Dr. Reardon will serve in a faculty fellow mentor position.
