These nationally recognized professionals will be present at our conference to provide their insight and expertise of teaching at a college level.
Dr. Michelle "Mikki" HeblMichelle “Mikki” Hebl is an applied psychologist at Rice University. She is the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of Psychology. Her research focuses on issues related to diversity and discrimination. She examines subtle ways in which discrimination is displayed, and how such discrimination is remediated by targets, allies, and organizations. In 2015, Dr. Hebl received the George R. Brown Certificate of Highest Merit at Rice University for her outstanding classroom performance. Additionally, Hebl was recently selected as one of three finalists for Baylor University’s Cherry Award, one of the nation’s most prestigious teaching awards. Hebl believes that great teaching involves “finding a message that you really believe in and then delivering it with as much passion as possible.”
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Dr. Eric Landrum
R. Eric Landrum is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Boise State University, receiving his PhD in cognitive psychology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. He is a research generalist, broadly addressing the improvement of teaching and learning, including the long-term retention of introductory psychology content, skills assessment, improving help-seeking behavior, advising innovations, understanding student career paths, the psychology workforce, successful graduate school applications, and more. Eric has 425+ presentations, 23 books/textbooks, and published 85 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has collaborated with 300+ research assistants and taught 18,000+ students in 27 years at Boise State. During the 2014 APA Educational Leadership Conference, Eric was presented with a Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the teaching of psychology. With the 2015 launch of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology journal, he served as inaugural co-editor. He is a member of APA, a fellow of Division Two (Society for the Teaching of Psychology/STP), and served as STP President (2014). He is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science (named fellow in 2018). During 2016-2017, Eric was President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association and was President of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology in 2017-2018.
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Professor Sue Frantz
At Highline College near Seattle, Sue Frantz is working on her third decade in the psychology college classroom. Throughout her career, she has been an early adopter of new technologies in which she saw pedagogical potential. In 2009, she founded her blog, Technology for Academics (SueFrantz.com). The blog features both new tech tools and tips for using not-so-new tools effectively. Frantz is an advocate for revising the Intro Psych course to be relevant to everyday life, asking, “What does my neighbor need to know about Psychology?” She was proud to serve the members of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology as their 2018 president. In 2013, she was the inaugural recipient of the American Psychological Association award for Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at a Two-Year College or Campus. She received the highest honor in the teaching of psychology in 2016—the American Psychological Foundation Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award.
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Dr. Marilla Svinicki
After completing her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Marilla Svinicki came to the University of Texas at Austin and began her career in faculty development as one of the first staff members of the new Center for Teaching Effectiveness at UT. She led the programs for faculty and graduate students interested in using the principles of psychology to become better teachers. Dr. Svinicki worked for thirty years to help create the field of faculty development and serve the wider higher education through writing, speaking, and encouraging graduate students to expand their expertise toward the same ends. She retired from the Center and became a full time faculty member of the Dept. of Educational Psychology in 2004, where she taught undergraduates seeking a teaching career and graduate students interested in research and innovation in all levels of education, primarily higher education. She was the chief editor for the series New Directions for Teaching and Learning, the co-editor and then chief editor for McKeachie's Teaching Tips, one of the most widely known book that focuses on teaching in higher education, and now writes a column for the National Teaching and Learning Forum, a newsletter about teaching. Dr. Svinicki retired from professional life in 2014, but has continued in the same activities since.
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