Green Bay Reporter

The Universities of Wisconsin have announced the participants for the 2024-2025 Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars (WTFS) program. The program includes representatives from the system's 11 comprehensive universities and UW-Milwaukee. Participants, who are nominated by their respective Provosts, must exhibit excellent teaching skills and a curiosity about student learning.

The WTFS program is set to commence in late May and will conclude with research presentations at the annual Spring Conference on Teaching and Learning in April 2025. This initiative offers faculty and teaching academic staff a unique platform to collaborate with peers from various disciplines across the Universities of Wisconsin. The program emphasizes evidence-based teaching approaches and involves participants in systematic research aimed at enhancing student learning through a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project, now in its 25th year.

WTFS is one of three signature programs facilitated by the Universities of Wisconsin’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID). OPID works with the system's 13 Centers for Teaching and Learning to promote excellence in teaching across face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments. Fay Akindes serves as OPID Director.

Valerie Barske, a history professor at UW-Stevens Point, and Heather Pelzel, a biological sciences professor at UW-Whitewater, direct this year's WTFS program.

The selected participants for the 2024–2025 cohort are:

- Rae Langes, UW-Eau Claire, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies

- Katrina Rothrock, UW-Eau Claire, Mathematics Education

- Heather Kaminski, UW-Green Bay, Cofrin School of Business

- Taskia Ahammad Khan, UW-Green Bay, Electrical Engineering

- Rachel Funk-Johnson, UW-La Crosse, Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship

- Xinhui Li, UW-La Crosse, Microbiology

- Astrid Ochoa Campo, UW-La Crosse, Spanish and World Languages

- Mair Culbreth, UW-Milwaukee, Dance

- Joan Shapiro Beigh, UW-Milwaukee, Organizations and Strategic Management

- Samantha Larson; UW Oshkosh; Public Administration

- Jordan Snyder; UW-Parkside; Psychology

- Amelia Ray; UW-Parkside; Chemistry

- Lynnette Dornak;UW-Platteville ;Physical Geography

- Lucie Kadjo;UW-Platteville ;Agribusiness

- Abigail Jackson;UW-River Falls ;Cognitive Psychology

- Carlos Rojas;UW-River Falls ;Spanish

- Cera Babb ;UW-River Falls ;Music-Choral

- Cary Elza ;UW-Stevens Point ;Media Studies

- Laura Anderson McIntyre ;UW-Stevens Point ;Forestry

- David Barry ;UW-Stevens Point ;Sociology

- Xiaojing “Kate” Liu ,UW-Stout ,Packaging

- Lauren Johnsen ,UW-Stout ,Communication Studies

- Priyanka Mehta ,UW-Superior ,Psychology

- Kara Woodley ,UW-Superior ,Special Education

- Cody Marie Busch ,UW Whitewater Speech Language Pathology

Rocio Duchesne-Onoro,UW Whitewater Environmental Science

For more information:

Mark Pitsch,

Universities of Wisconsin,

608-265-3419,

mark.pitsch@wisconsin.edu,

universityrelations@wisconsin.edu