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Six faculty named Lilly teaching fellows

By Kristin K. Anderson

Six MSU faculty are participants in the 2007-08 Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, which provides junior faculty with opportunities to improve their teaching skills.

This year’s program participants, and their projects and mentors are:

• Ravi Bhavnani, assistant professor of political science, College of Social Science and International Studies and Programs, “Developing Excellence through the Study of Political Conflict and Violence”; Michael Bratton, University Distinguished Professor of political science, College of Social Science and African Studies Center, International Studies and Programs.

• Janine Certo, assistant professor of teacher education, College of Education, “Using an Aesthetic Reading-Writing Workshop to Prepare Teacher-Poet Fellows”; Laura Apol, associate professor of teacher education, College of Education.

• Rita Edozie, assistant professor in the James Madison College, “Politics and Prose: Teaching (Interdisciplinarity) in the Public and International Affairs Classroom”; Linda Racioppi, professor in the James Madison College.

• Chet Morrison, assistant professor of surgery, College of Human Medicine, “The Development and Implementation of a ‘Call’ Curriculum – a Patient-Centered Maintenance of a Call Competency”; Brian Mavis, associate professor, and director, Medical Education Research and Development, College of Human Medicine.

• Tina Timm, assistant professor of family and child psychology, College of Social Science, “Looking in the Mirror: Using Transformative Learning to Promote Self-Reflection on Issues of Diversity”; Susan J. Peters, assistant professor of counseling, educational psychology and special education, and teacher education, College of Education.

• Leigh VanHandel, assistant professor of music theory and cognitive science, College of Music, “Incorporating Keyboard – Oriented Activities and Online Peer Assessment into Music Theory Pedagogy”; Mark Sullivan, associate professor of music, College of Music.

The program, now in its 17th year, pairs Lilly fellows with experienced faculty mentors within their colleges or outside their departments. Participants engage in a yearlong exploration of college teaching and learning with their peers from other disciplines throughout the university. Each fellow is responsible for a personal teaching and/or curriculum development project during their fellowship year.

For additional information on the Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, contact Deb DeZure, Office of Faculty and Organizational Development, facdevel@msu.edu, or (517) 432-2033 or visit: www.provost.msu.edu/facdev/lillyFellow/about.asp.