ITUE 10th Anniversary Symposium

Transforming Undergraduate Education:
Promises, Benefits, and Limitations

Biosketches of invited presenters

Chris M. Anson, Professor of English and Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University, chris_anson@ncsu.edu

Chris teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in language, composition, and literacy and works with faculty in nine colleges to reform undergraduate education in the areas of writing and speaking. Before moving to NCSU in 1999, he spent fifteen years at the University of Minnesota, where he directed the Program in Composition from 1988-96 and was Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor. He received his Ph.D. and second M.A. in English with a specialization in composition studies from Indiana University, and his B.A. and first M.A. in English from Syracuse University.
Homepage: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~theansons/bio.html
NC State Campus Writing and Speaking Program: http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/CWSP/

Dee Fink, professional consultant, dfink@ou.edu

Dee is a nationally-recognized expert on college teaching and faculty development. He founded the Instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma (1979) and served as its director until his retirement from Oklahoma in May 2005. He was president of the POD Network (Professional and Organizational Development) in Higher Education (2003-2006), the primary professional organization for faculty developers. At the present time he does independent consulting work. He is the author of “Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses” (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and co-editor of “Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching” (Stylus, 2004).
Homepage: http://www.finkconsulting.info/

Terry Platt, Professor of Biology, and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, tpla@mail.rochester.edu

Terry graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. in mathematics, followed by training at Columbia Teachers' College and two years in the Peace Corps teaching secondary school math and physics in Tanzania.  He did his graduate work on the lac repressor in the Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Harvard, followed by a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. After a decade on the faculty at Yale, he moved to Rochester in 1985. Over the past 8 years, Terry's interests have shifted to researching and implementing improvements in small group cooperative learning approaches, in both medical school and college level courses.  He is a leader of the informal Workshop Task Force at Rochester, and a strong proponent of the "Rochester Workshop Model" that emphasizes the involvement of highly trained peer leaders as an integral component of a successful and self-maintaining workshop program.
Homepage: http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/professors/platt.html

Dickie's teaching interests include computer-intensive first-year English, technical communication, and graduate technology studies courses. Two-week professional development institutes include Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum for K-12 teachers and students and Computers In Writing-Intensive Classes for college faculty, staff, and graduate students. Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University..
Homepage: http://humanities.osu.edu/people/db/Viewppl.cfm?id=2084

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