The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has named two finalists for the next director of the Center for Transformative Teaching. Candidates were selected through a national search and campus interviews will be Nov. 11 and 14.
Each candidate will deliver a public presentation on the prompt “What opportunities and challenges do you see for teaching and learning at this moment in higher education? If you were the director of UNL’s Center for Transformative Teaching, where would you focus your attention?”
The finalists and schedules are:
Nov. 11 — Wendy Smith, director of the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Public presentation is 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. in the Nebraska Union, Heritage Room.
Nov. 14 — Anna Bostwick Flaming, assistant provost for teaching and learning and director of the Center for Teaching, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Public presentation is 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. in the Willa S. Cather Dining Complex, Red Cloud B-C.
Candidate curricula vitae are available upon request via executivevcoffice@unl.edu.
Candidates were selected by a search committee led by Chad Brassil, faculty director of undergraduate analytics and associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences. Committee members include Beverly Russell, associate director of the Center for Transformative Teaching; June Griffin, associate dean for undergraduate education and strategic initiatives and professor of practice in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Tareq Daher, director of the Engineering and Computing Education Core and assistant professor of practice in the College of Engineering.
The leadership change has been prompted by the departure of inaugural director Nick Monk, who was selected to serve as executive director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University.
