Closing Plenary

Agenda for January 27, 2021

1:00pm-4:00 pm ET | 12:00pm-3:00pm CT | 11:00am-2:00pm MT | 10:00am-1:00am PT

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1:00 pm ET Cross-cutting Challenges and Opportunities to Improving Teaching Evaluation

Reflections on themes emerging from the posters and office hours


  • Pat Hutchings, Senior Scholar, BayView Alliance, and Senior Scholar, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment

  • Mark Lee, Associate Professor of Biology and Trustee, Spelman College

  • Victoria Sork, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Moderator: Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado, Boulder


1:40 pm ET Breakout Discussions to Further Explore Emerging Themes


Topic A: Engaging more people in campus conversations

Topic B: Aligning new approaches, policies, and reward structures

Topic C: Making evaluation more equitable for faculty

Topic D: Thinking about the impacts of COVID on faculty evaluation


Moderated by Ann Austin, Michigan State University and Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas


2:45 pm ET Exploring Emerging Themes: Ideas from Breakout Groups


Moderated by Ann Austin, Michigan State University and Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas


3:10 pm ET Campus Perspectives on Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education

  • Annette Parker, President, South Central College

  • Laurie Leshin, President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President, University of Maine

  • Moderator: Gabriela Weaver, University of Massachusetts, Amherst


3:40pm ET National Perspectives on Transforming STEM Teaching Evaluation in Higher Education and Closing Remarks


  • Emily Miller, Association of American Universities

  • Christine Broussard, University of LaVerne

  • Heidi Schweingruber, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine


4:00 pm ET Adjourn