About -> Leadership
TEval Leadership
Below are the leads for each of the campus efforts, cross institutional studies and evaluation. More about the teams on each campus can be found on the specific campus-specific sites.
Ann E. Austin [Interim Vice Provost and Distinguished Professor, MSU effort]
Ann E. Austin is Interim Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs and University Distinguished Professor of Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University, where she served previously as Interim Dean of the College of Education. Dr. Austin’s research concerns faculty careers and professional development, organizational change in higher education, teaching and learning in higher education, doctoral education, reform in STEM education, the academic workplace, equity and inclusion in academe and higher education in the international context.
Noah Finkelstein [Director, CU Boulder effort]
Noah Finkelstein is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a PI in the Physics Education Research (PER) group, and a co-director of CU’s Center for STEM Learning. Noah conducts research on the conditions that support students’ interests and abilities in physics and how educational transformations get taken up, spread, and sustained.
Andrea (Dea) Follmer [Director, KU effort]
Andrea (Dea) Follmer is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Gautt Teaching Scholar at the University of Kansas. Her research in psychology is on cognitive development and memory. Her teaching center work explores how we can transform university students’ learning experiences to be both grounded in cognitive and developmental science and mindful of the challenges they face in the future. Dea is also Associate Director of the Bay View Alliance, a consortium of research universities studying strategies to promote widespread faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices.
Mark Graham [Director of evaluation]
Mark Graham, is a Research Scientist and is the Director of the STEM Program Evaluation and Research Lab (STEM PERL) at Yale University. These efforts are part of a national effort to transform undergraduate science teaching and student learning. He is principal investigator for a National Science Foundation supported investigation of the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching’s impact on faculty teaching and student achievement. In addition, Dr. Graham provides program evaluation expertise to other NSF and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) principal investigators on how to evaluate the success of a program or initiative.
Gabriela Weaver [Director, UMass-Amherst effort]
Special Assistant to the Provost for Educational Initiatives and Professor of Chemistry, University of Mass Amherst. From 2014-2018, Weaver served as associate provost and director for the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development. The Center supports the professional development of faculty across all career stages and disciplines with a wide range of programs and resources focused on teaching, mentoring, scholarly writing, tenure preparation, leadership, and work/life balance. In collaboration with the Graduate School, the center also provides teaching development support for graduate students.