SoTL Resource Group

The SoTL Resource Group is a group of faculty/staff with expertise/experience in one or more areas of SoTL. This might be expertise in doing SoTL (e.g., designing studies, doing analyses, finding appropriate literature) or expertise in a substantive area on which one might conduct SoTL (e.g., collaborative learning, writing-across-the-curriculum, use of instructional technology).

Each of these individuals has agreed to serve as a volunteer resource person to others interested in doing SoTL. For each resource group member (they are listed in alphabetical order by last name), his/her contact information and area(s) or expertise are listed. You may contact any of these individuals to request advice or assistance with a SoTL project. Please note that those individuals with an asterisk (*) following their name served as a SoTL Scholar-Mentor for at least one semester and, as such, have cross-disciplinary SoTL experience.

If you have expertise in doing SoTL work and would like to become a member of this group, please contact SoTL@IllinoisState.edu

Bill Anderson

Associate Professor, Family & Consumer Sciences

(309) 438-3256
jander2@IllinoisState.edu

Learning theory, interrupted case studies as a pedagogical method

Kathleen McKinney

Cross Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Sociology/Anthropology

kmckinne@IllinoisState.edu

Designing and conducting various forms of SoTL, writing/submitting/revising/resubmitting manuscripts for publication to SoTL outlets, SoTL publication outlets

Judith Briggs

Associate Professor, Art Education

(309) 438-7352
jabrigg@IllinoisState.edu

International art education, arts-based research, contemporary art and art education

Erin Mikulec*

Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning

(309) 438-7566
mmoore2@IllinoisState.edu

Documentary as a SoTL method, collaborative learning, civic engagement, free speech, participatory research

Michaelene Cox*

Associate Professor, Politics and Government

(309) 438-8923
mcox@IllinoisState.edu

Disciplinary and cross-disciplinary SoTL projects, civic engagement, service learning, collaborative research

Maria Moore*

Associate Professor and Mass Media Program Coordinator, Communication

(309) 438-3298
mmoore2@IllinoisState.edu

Documentary as a SoTL method, collaborative learning, civic engagement, free speech, participatory research

Jennifer Friberg*

Cross Endowed Chair in SoTL and Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

(309) 438-7706
jfribe@IllinoisState.edu

Designing and conducting SoTL, dissemination of SoTL, application of SoTL, mentoring students/faculty in SoTL, SoTL Advocacy

Cara Rabe-Hemp

Professor, Criminal Justice Science

(309) 438-2739
cerabe@IllinoisState.edu

Web-based teaching and learning, gender and pedagogy, autonomous learning and student engagement

Anu Gokhale*

Professor, Technology

(309) 438-5576
aagokha@IllinoisState.edu

Teaching and learning in STEM-related fields, data mining algorithms for descriptive and predictive analytics

Rob Rhykerd

Professor and Chair, Agriculture

(309) 438-8550
rrhyker@IllinoisState.edu

Evaluation the effects of critical thinking pedagogies, applying course concepts to real-world situation, collaborative learning pedagogies and their relationship to comprehension of course material

Susan Hildebrandt

Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

(309) 438-7874
shildeb@IllinoisState.edu

SoTL assessment and student outcomes, teacher education and evaluation, civic engagement, service learning

Julie Schumacher

Associate Professor and Dietetic Internship Director, Family & Consumer Sciences

(309) 438-7031
jmraede@IllinoisState.edu

Out-of-class learning, service learning, graduate student learning, learning through teaching

Richard Hughes

Associate Professor, History

(309) 438-5424
rhughes@IllinoisState.edu

Discipline-specific cognition and pedagogy, teacher education, study abroad

Cheri Simonds

Professor, Communication

(309) 438-7550
cjsimon@IllinoisState.edu

Student perceptions of innovative assignments and student engagement, publishing SoTL work, evaluation fidelity, and teacher characteristics that improve learning

Alycia Hund

Professor, Psychology

(309) 438-7863
amhund@IllinoisState.edu

SoTL research methodology, IRB preparation/implementation, out-of-class learning

Lisa Vinney

Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

(309) 438-5437
lavinne@IllinoisState.edu

Metacognition, clinical simulation, educational gaming, learning though teaching

Kenneth Jerich

kfjerich@IllinoisState.edu

Instructional/clinical supervision for the improvement of college teachers, providing conceptual frameworks for the development of college teaching programs in higher education

Jeff Walsh

Associate Professor, Criminal Justice Science

(309) 438-3221
jawalsh@IllinoisState.edu

SoTL research methods, student-centered learning, student as active research participants, active learning strategies, civic engagement

Phyllis McCluskey-Titus*

Professor, Educational Administration & Foundations

(309) 438-8683
pamcclu2@IllinoisState.edu

Involving students in SoTL research, student learning from out-of-class experiences, students as members of research teams, designing and publishing SoTL studies

Dane Ward

Dean, Milner Library

(309) 438-7215
dmward@IllinoisState.edu

Libraries, organizational development, information literacy