Diversity

General Information

Math & Science

        Dr. Uri Treisman received a B.S. (summa cum laude) in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. His doctoral advisor was Professor Leon Henkin. Uri Treisman is professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center. His research and professional interests include mathematics and science education, education policy, and community service and volunteerism.

Articles:  

http://www.utdanacenter.org/people/uri-treisman/

http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/MRCTE/treisman.htm

http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/workplace/workplacediv/abstractsindex/calc-fail.aspx

       Craig E. Nelson is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he has been since 1966. His biological research (60+ articles and chapters) has been on evolution and ecology, most recently on sex-determination in turtles. His articles on teaching (20+) address critical thinking and mature valuing, diversity, active learning, teaching evolution and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has presented invited workshops on these and related topics at numerous national meetings and at many individual institutions (in 36 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa). He has taught several courses in biology as well as intensive freshman seminars, great books and other honors courses, several collaboratively taught interdisciplinary courses (mostly in environmental studies) and regularly taught a graduate course on "Alternative Approaches to Teaching College Biology." He has been instrumental in the development of IU's award winning Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) program and was founding Director of Environmental Programs in its School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He has received several awards for distinguished teaching from IU and nationally competitive awards from Vanderbilt and Northwestern universities. He has been a Carnegie Scholar since 2000. He was named the Outstanding Research And Doctoral University Professor Of The Year 2000 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). He received the President's Medal for Excellence, "the highest honor bestowed by Indiana University," in 2001. He was the first President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which he helped found in 2004. His workshops and pedagogical publications emphasize the importance of active learning for its own benefits (increased learning, retention and enthusiasm), as a way to more effectively foster critical thinking and as the core to any effective response to diversity. The workshops themselves rely heavily on active learning techniques, thus directly demonstrating the effectiveness of active learning, and provide introductory bibliographies. Dr. Nelson has presented invited workshops at international conferences in Ireland and Great Britain, at many national meetings [American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Higher Education, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Lilly Conferences on College Teaching (multiple times), National Institutes on Teaching and Learning (multiple times), etc.] and at over 100 colleges and universities in 36 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, England and Australia. He also has presented invited Chautauqua Short Courses for College Faculty almost annually since 1989 (3 days each; program sponsored by NSF).

Articles:  

http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1641%2F0006-3568(2006)56%5B286%3ANRTB%5D2.0.CO%3B2&ct=1

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~slm/AdjCI/Startclass/Diversity.html

http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/carnegie/MCCCG/howcouldNelsonArticle.htm

http://apps.medialab.uwindsor.ca/ctl/downloads/2007/Craig%20Nelson%20-%20Alternatives%20to%20Blaming%20Students.pdf

Quick Summaries of Key Ideas

Craig E. Nelson. 2000. "How Can Students Who Are Reasonably Bright and Who Are Trying Hard To Do The Work Still Flunk?"  NTLF 9(5):7-8

-2001. "What Is The Most Difficult Step We Must Take To Become Great Teachers?" National Teaching and Learning (NTLF)               10(4: 10-11

-2001. "What Might Help A Pretty Good Teacher Become A Great Teacher?" NTLF 10(3):5-7

-2001. "Why Should You Publish Your Best Teaching Ideas?" NTFL 10 (2):10-11

-2000. "What Is The First Step We Should Take To Become Great Teachers?" NTLF 10 (1):7-

-2000. "Must Faculty Teach in Ways That Make Them Easily Dispensable?" NTLF  9(6):4-5

-2000. "How To Find Out More About College Teaching And Its Scholarship: A Not Too Brief, Very Selective Hyperlinked List." http://php.indiana.edu/~nelson1/TCHNGBKS.html

 

Articles:

http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/printer_6112.shtml

http://members.aol.com/digasa/xavier.htm

http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie99/papers/1339.pdf

Additional Information

Meyerhoff Program -  http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/3640/fulfilling_the_expectation_of_excellence