ILTE News and Features
Margot Morgan and Faye Camahalan receive prestigious Mack Fellowships
June 28, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Faye Camahalan, dean of the School of Education and Margot Morgan, assistant professor of political science, have received the prestigious P.A. Mack Fellowship for 2018-19 granted by Indiana University’s Mack Center for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning, administered by the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET). The Mack Fellowship ...
IU Southeast faculty shine at FACET Academy Awards
May 29, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Three IU Southeast faculty members are among five recipients of the second annual Academy Awards for Excellence in Teaching, presented by the Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET). They are Sridhar Ramachandran, associate professor of informatics; Lisa Russell, associate professor of strategic management and entrepreneurship; and Rhonda Wrzenski, associate ...
Passion for teaching is contagious at third annual Adjunct Faculty Scholars Conference
April 27, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Over 125 instructors from all IU campuses as well as Louisville metro area institutions gathered at IU Southeast earlier this month for the third Adjunct Faculty Scholars Conference, hosted by the Institute for Learning and Teaching Excellence (ILTE). The conference featured a keynote presentation by Lynn Slaughter, adjunct instructor in ...
Margot Morgan recognized for classroom innovation
April 19, 2018
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Dr. Margot Morgan, assistant professor of political science, is the recipient of this year’s faculty innovation award, presented by the Institute of Teaching and Learning Excellence (ILTE). The criteria for the award included consistency with best practices in teaching, the potential for cross-disciplinary adaptation, evidence of student impact, originality and ...
Faculty Innovator: Patricia Gettings
March 29, 2018
Patricia Gettings Assistant Professor of Communication Studies School of Arts and Letters By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—When Patricia Gettings was 22, she graduated from the University of Richmond and took a summer job in food service on a high-end dude ranch near Encampment, Wyoming. Don’t be surprised if ...
Faculty Innovator: Jennifer Lathem
March 1, 2018
Jennifer Lathem Lecturer in Geosciences School of Natural Sciences By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Jennifer Lathem grew up on the river. Pretty much in the same way that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn grew up on the river. Home was Bushman’s Lake, where Charlestown, Indiana, fades out into ...
Faculty Innovator: Anne Allen
February 16, 2018
Anne Allen Professor of Fine Arts School of Arts and Letters By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—The Samoan tattoo runs in a band around the lower leg of Anne Allen, professor of fine arts at IU Southeast, with two outer rings bearing stylized ocean waves bounding a decorative ...
Faculty Innovator: Gretchen Kirchner
January 23, 2018
Gretchen Kirchner Professor of Biology School of Natural Sciences By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—It was 1990. George H.W. Bush was president. Madonna’s “Vogue” was climbing the charts. The New England Patriots were still awful. In the genetics lab of Gretchen Kirchner, now professor of biology, students were ...
