The Office of Undergraduate Studies and CTE are pleased to announce the 2007-2008 cohort of CTE-Lilly Fellows:

Shenglin Chang, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Janet Coffey, Curriculum and Instruction

Todd J. Cooke, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Leslie Felbain, Theatre

David Hawthorne, Entomology

Robert T. Jackson, Nutrition and Food Science

Barbara Jacoby, Stamp Student Union, Campus Programs and Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy

Penelope Koines, Biology

Randy Ontiveros, English

Marvin W. Scott, Kinesiology

The 2007-08 CTE-Lilly Fellows will join an elite group of campus leaders who have helped to define and shape the academic culture of the University. The Fellowship affords faculty the opportunity to spend a year interacting with colleagues from other teaching disciplines. As they develop a sustained conversation about teaching and learning, they create a valuable faculty learning community, which serves to support individual faculty as well as the campus' academic culture.

As a result of their work, CTE-Lilly Fellows have been the catalysts and organizers of numerous campus events, projects, and initiatives. Examples include the campus-wide Undergraduate Research Day, invited talks by national leaders, and activities to enhance connections between faculty and undergraduates (such as Lunch Meet, the Diversity Showcase of Student Academic Work, and this year's inaugural “Going International” day devoted to undergraduate student international learning). Fellows have also created a faculty mentoring initiative, worked on the University teaching evaluation policy, created the Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and led other projects that respond to challenges and issues central to the academic mission of the University.