GLCA Teagle Pedagogy Fellows

GLCA Names Twenty Faculty Members as Teagle Pedagogy Fellows

The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is pleased to announce the appointment of twenty faculty members from across its member colleges as GLCA Teagle Pedagogy Fellows. The Fellows were chosen through a selective process of nomination and application. They are distinguished not just by their knowledge of research on human learning and pedagogical technique, but also by their strong interest in working with faculty colleagues within and across GLCA member colleges to enhance liberal arts teaching and learning.

Teagle Pedagogy Fellows will have key roles in the development of a new consortial program, called the GLCA Lattice for Pedagogical Research and Practice, created with funding from the Teagle Foundation. These Fellows will engage with interested faculty members on their own campuses and at other GLCA colleges, helping to generate heightened interest and momentum in exploring different modes of pedagogy to enhance student learning and achievement.

The GLCA Lattice project will connect interested faculty on a given campus to a larger consortial community of interest centered on liberal arts teaching and learning. The Teagle Pedagogy Fellows will help achieve this result in part through a series of campus, regional, and consortial colloquies on pedagogical research and practice. These events will draw together faculty members from different colleges to compare challenges and consider approaches that hold promise in improving learning in the liberal arts, within and across academic disciplines.

In face-to-face as well as follow-up digital exchanges, Fellows will serve as resources and sounding boards to help other faculty members consider potential approaches to enhance teaching, and in some cases to support formal projects that apply principles from research on learning to the design and implementation of alternative pedagogies. The dialogue among Fellows and their GLCA colleagues will provide a mutual benefit as faculty members of several campuses work to enrich the state of thinking and exploration in liberal arts pedagogy.

GLCA’s President, Richard Detweiler, notes that “Our vision for this pilot program is to establish the foundation for a sustaining GLCA center for pedagogical research and practice. We are confident that the skills and knowledge our Teagle Pedagogy Fellows bring to this collaborative initiative will help us achieve that goal.”

The founding cohort of GLCA Teagle Pedagogy Fellows are:

Andrew French, Chemistry, Albion College

Jocelyn McWhirter, Religious Studies, Albion College

Aimee Knupsky, Psychology, Allegheny College

Frank Hassebrock, Psychology, Denison University

Kerry Pannell, Economics, DePauw University

Amy Mulnix, Biology, Earlham College

Jay Roberts, Education and Environmental Studies, Earlham College

Thomas Ludwig, Psychology, Hope College

Joanne Stewart, Chemistry, Hope College

Scott VanderStoep, Psychology, Hope College

Kiran Cunningham, Anthropology, Kalamazoo College

Theodore Mason, English, Kenyon College

Patricia deWinstanley, Psychology, Oberlin College

Laurie McMillan, Rhetoric, Oberlin College

Steven Volk, History, Oberlin College

Sarah Bunnell, Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University

Warren Rosenberg, English, Wabash College

Richard Warner, History, Wabash College

Shelley Judge, Geology, The College of Wooster

Claudia Thompson, Psychology, The College of Wooster

For more information on the GLCA Lattice for Pedagogical Research and Practice, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Director of Program Development, GLCA.