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After 20 years of providing leadership on teaching and learning issues at the University of Minnesota, Joyce Weinsheimer relocated to Atlanta in 2005 and joined the CETL staff as Assistant Director for Faculty Development. Her areas of special interest include teaching for learning, developing programming that enhances teaching throughout a lifespan (whether it be for early career, mid career, or senior faculty), and initiating partnerships that bring together people with different backgrounds and strengths to address teaching and learning issues. In addition, Joyce enjoys working with international faculty who teach American students in study abroad programs. Joyce earned her B.S. at the State University of New York College at Buffalo with an emphasis in English and her Ed.D in Higher Education with a second field in Educational Psychology at Texas Tech University. After directing learning centers at both Texas Tech University and the University of Minnesota, Joyce helped create the Center for Teaching and Learning Services at the University of Minnesota and served as its director for nine years. Joyce has published several books and articles on promoting student success, collaborated with faculty from several higher education institutions to develop interactive on-line workshops for both TAs and faculty, and published articles on faculty development. |
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Deputy Director 404.385.7263
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Clay first became captivated by the role of technology in both communities and education while working as a volunteer in educational development in rural South Africa. There amidst schools without libraries, and communities historically walled off from the world, he discovered the power of the Web for leapfrogging a generation of infrastructure and lack of informational resources. Upon returning to the States in 1999 he moved to Boston to enter a master's program in philosophy at Boston University, and he parlayed his experience doing computer modeling in gamma ray astronomy (he holds an M.S. in Astrophysics from I.S.U.) to acquire a job in the IT department - initially just for the tuition remission while he pursued his own studies. But a professional philosophical interest was once again eclipsed by a fascination with the computer as both a social tool and a medium for learning and collaboration. Late in 2003 he became the Associate Director for Academic Computing for Boston University's School of Management, and then spearheaded BU's entry into the Sakai partnership (http://sakaiproject.org) in early 2004. Since then he has been a vocal and active member of the Sakai community at a number of levels, and was named one of the inaugural Sakai fellows in May of 2006, then elected to the Board of Directors of Sakai in December of 2006. Throughout, his keenest interest has been in the meaningful support of collaboration with technology, and the community source model of shared development for higher ed |
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Director, Educational Technology 404.385.6644 |
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Dr. Tris Utschig is the Senior Academic Professional for the Scholarship and Assessment of Teaching and Learning. He is available to consult with faculty regarding the design and assessment of innovative educational research projects, grants and initiatives on campus. He enjoys interacting with faculty from many disciplines and helping people build community as they develop skills and knowledge related to the scholarship and assessment of teaching and learning. Tris will also take the lead in managing the campus course/instructor opinion survey beginning in the spring of 2007. Tris’ research focuses on assessment from the classroom level to the program and institutional level. He has published and presented work on teaching diversity, using technology in the classroom, and faculty development related to instructional design, assessment, and peer coaching. Tris joined CETL in September 2006 after directing the pre-engineering program at Lewis-Clark State College for six years where he taught freshman and sophomore engineering and physics courses as an Associate Professor of Engineering Physics. Prior to joining the faculty at Lewis-Clark State College, Tris earned his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His technical expertise involves the analysis of thermal systems for fusion applications. |
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Assistant Director for the Scholarship and Assessment of Teaching and Learning 404.385.2949 |
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Chaohua Ou received her BA and MA in English Education from Guangxi Normal University in China , where she had a six-year teaching experience in higher education. She worked closely with faculty in designing and developing online courses while she was working for her Ed.D in Instructional Technology at Texas Tech University . She joined CETL in 2005 and she currently works with faculty regarding issues of instructional design and effective use of instructional technology. Her areas of interest include web-based instruction, distance education, multimedia learning, and computer-assisted instruction. |
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Academic Professional of Instructional Technology 404.385.4812 |
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David Lawrence received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University, where he served as a graduate teaching assistant in public speaking and argumentation and advocacy courses. After graduation, he joined the communication department at Alma College, a private liberal arts college located in central Michigan, and taught courses in argumentation, digital media, mass communication, persuasion, and propaganda. While at Alma College, David received the “Outstanding Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award” and the “Faculty Barlow Award,” recognizing his contributions to teaching, creative works, and community service. In 2007, David joined the faculty at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia where he served as Director of the Speaking Center and visiting associate professor of communication and rhetoric. As Director of the Speaking Center, his responsibilities included training communication consultants, promoting speaking across the curriculum, and working with faculty in developing and evaluating speaking assignments. David joined the staff of CETL in August 2011 and serves as a Communication Skills Specialist, teaching CETL courses in academic writing and academic presentations. Additionally, he provides consultations for graduate students and post-docs to discuss their academic writing projects and/or development of their presentation skills. |
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Communication Skills Specialist 404.385.7357 |
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Academic Professional 404.894.1355 |
Carol Subiño Sullivan is an Academic Professional specializing in Teaching Assistant (TA) development at Georgia Tech. She works with various units across the Institute to assess their needs for training first time TAs. Based on these assessments she helps units develop or revise their curriculum for CETL 8000/2000 and provides teaching support as needed. She also teaches other courses in the Tech to Teaching Higher Education Certificate to support TAs in their further development as learner-centered teachers. In Spring 2013, she will also teach a service learning course through the honors program where Georgia Tech undergraduates will mentor local high school students in preparing to go to college while learning about issues in urban education. Carol earned her BA (2002) from the University of South Florida in Dance Studies and Anthropology and her MA (2006) and PhD (2012) from Indiana University in Anthropology. Her dissertation research was based on fieldwork in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico where she spent a year doing ethnographic research with a community of artists dedicated to the practice of dance and drum from Guinea, West Africa. While still a graduate student, she taught courses as an instructor of record in the Anthropology department at Indiana University. Following her fieldwork in Mexico, she received a Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship to teach in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Indiana University South Bend. Just prior to coming to Georgia Tech, she was an adjunct instructor in the Anthropology department at the University of West Georgia, teaching courses about performance, Latin America, and ethnography. She continues to apply the qualitative data collection and analysis approaches from her anthropological background to the needs and outcomes assessment work she does with CETL. |
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Diley (Dyla) Hernandez is a native of Havana, Cuba. After studying Psychology for several years at the University of Havana she immigrated to the United States and received her B.A. in Psychology from New Mexico State University in 2004. Diley continued her academic studies at The University of Arizona where she completed a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a minor in Social Psychology. Her areas of specialization include motivation, learning and cognition, instructional methods, human development, and cross-cultural studies in education. She taught for over five years a variety of education and human development courses at several institutions such as The University of Arizona (2006-2009) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2009-2011). Her research interests include the impact of stereotype and social identity threat on the academic achievement and motivation of minority students, the cross-cultural variation of motivational processes, and Latino student’s academic achievement in STEM education. Currently, she works for the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Institute of Technology as the Director of the Goizueta STEM Initiative. |
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Director, Goizueta STEM Initiative 404.385.2424 |
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Stuart Freeman received his BS in Computer Science from Valdosta State University in 2004. After graduation, Stuart spent two and a half years as a system administrator for The University of Georgia. His interests include free and open source software, digital liberties issues, and technology's relationship to cultural transformation. |
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System Analyst 404.385.1473 |
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Administrative Assistant II 404.894.9418 |