The Center for theAdvancement of Teaching & Learning
Staff
Aeron Haynie
Director
Aeron Haynie is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay and Associate Professor of English and Humanities. She received her B.A from the University at Buffalo and her M.A. and PhD. in English from the University of Florida.
She has published in Pedagogy and is co-editor (with Regan Gurung and Nancy Chick) of Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind and the second volume, Exploring More Signature Pedagogies as well as being a scholar of Victorian studies.
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Joanne Dolan
Instructional Design Coordinator
Joanne is the Instructional Design Coordinator of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. She received her B.A. in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and her M.A. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction from St. Xavier University in Chicago.
She previously worked as a Learning Center Coordinator at Rasmussen College and presented on Online Student Success at Sloan C Blended Conference in 2012. She has three year's experience of online education from all perspectives - student, faculty, faculty consultant and administrator, and strongly believes in the effectiveness of well-designed and well-taught online education.
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Regan A. R. Gurung
Faculty Consultant
Regan A. R. Gurung is Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Born and raised in Bombay, India, Dr. Gurung received a B.A. in psychology at Carleton College (MN), and a Masters and Ph.D. in social and personality psychology at the University of Washington (WA). He then spent three years at UCLA as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research fellow.
Dr. Gurung is a dedicated teacher and has strong interests in enhancing faculty development and student understanding. He is Co-Director of the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Scholars Program, has been a UWGB Teaching Fellow, a UW System Teaching Scholar, and is winner of many teaching awards including the CASE Wisconsin Professor of the Year, the UW System Regents Teaching Award and the UW-Green Bay Founder's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals including Psychological Review and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Teaching of Psychology. He has a textbook, Health Psychology: A Cultural Approach, relating culture, development, and health published with Cengage (third edition in preparation) and is also the co-author/co-editor of eight other books.
When not helping people stay calm, reading and writing, Dr. Gurung enjoys culinary explorations, travel, and avoiding political discussions of any kind.
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Kimberly Baker
Faculty Consultant
Kimberly Baker is an Assistant Professor of Human Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She received her B.S. in Microbiology at the University of Minnesota, M.S. in Microbiology at Clemson University, and Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Ohio State University. She then spent three years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Carleton College followed by three years as a Post-Doctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota. She teaches Principles of Biology, Human Genetics, Developmental Biology, and Cancer Biology.
She was a UW System Teaching Fellow (WTF) in 2010-2011 and has participated in UWGB's Teaching Scholar Program. She is interested in pedagogical approaches that enhance student learning. Her WTF project assessed the impact of clicker case studies on student learning and engagement in introductory Biology. She has also examined the effectiveness of inquiry-based laboratories which require students to develop hypotheses, design and conduct experiments to test their hypotheses, and analyze and interpret their data. Most recently, students in her Cancer Biology lab designed projects using dietary phytochemicals as a means to suppress breast cancer cell proliferation.
She has presented her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects at several meetings including the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, UW System's President's Summit for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the UW System Women and Science Program Conference.
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Angela Bauer-Dantoin
UWGB Teaching Scholars Co-Director
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David Voelker
UWGB Teaching Scholars Co-Director
David Voelker (Humanistic Studies and History) began teaching at UW-Green Bay in 2003. Most of his courses focus on American history before the Civil War.
He was a UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholar in 2004-05 and 2011-12 and was a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow in 2006-07. In 2012, he was co-winner of the Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award for "The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model," Journal of American History 97 (4): 1050-1066, which he co-authored with Joel Sipress. He shares resources related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at The Gray Box
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Carol Wolske
LTE Program Associate
Carol Wolske worked at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for 35 years in different positions in the Registrar's Office, Education Office, and the Dean of Students Office. She took courses at NWTC and attended seminars/training both on and off campus in topics related to the clerical profession.
Years ago, she served on different committees of the Clerical Development Committee, now called the Classified Staff Advisory Council. In 1993, she was awarded the Founders Association Award for Excellence in Clerical Support.
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