2025 Conference Schedule

Beyond Evaluation: Framing and Documenting Scholarly Teaching

Karin deJonge-Kannan
Emeritus Principal Lecturer

Travis N. Thurston
Executive Director, Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence

The Accessible Advantage: Enhancing Learning for Every Student

David Pruden
Executive Director, Disability Resource Center

Megan Cox
Digital Accessibility Officer

Readout: Active Learning and Formative Assessment for Data Literacy

Cameron Nielsen
Scholarly Communications Librarian for Research Data Services

Rachel Blume
Open Science Librarian

Real-Word Impact Through Community-Engaged Teaching

J.C. Sheen
Assistant Professor

Sunshine Brosi
Associate Professor

Laura Gelfand
Professor

Dave Anderson
Professional Practice Professor

Nelda Ault-Dyslin
Assistant Director of Community-Engaged Learning

The Future of Writing at USU: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Beth Buyserie
Director of Composition

Melissa Scheaffer
Principal Lecturer

Lianne Wappett
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Kari Lamoreaux
Lecturer

The Power of Yet: Helping Students to Develop a Growth Mindset

Andreas "Baron" Wesemann
Professional Practice Professor & Associate Department Head

Transforming Office Hours Into Learning Spaces Using Matt Sanders' Becoming a Learner as a Framework

Jenny Willmore
Assistant Director, Center for Academic Belonging and Learning Excellence

Carolina Bell
Lead Academic Success Coach

Matt Sanders
Professor

Make It Short, Make It Stick: 40 strategies in 40 minutes

John Russell
Lecturer

Lucy Delgadillo
Professor

Brent Thomas
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

Marie Lund
Lecturer

Beyond the Grade: How Alumni Define Career-Ready

Jesse J. Jones
Professional Practice Associate Professor

"Dare to Know": Teaching and Mentoring beyond the Grade in the University Honors Program

Kristine Miller
Executive Director of the University Honors Program & Professor

Amanda Katz
Assistant Professor

Katie Kraus
Associate Professor

Rachel Robison-Greene
Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Vargis
Associate Professor

College Immersion Programs

Jason Twede
Associate Professor

Jenn Cowburn
Tooele Associate Vice President

Amanda Plaizier
Concurrent Enrollment Faculty Mentor

David Baca
Lecturer

Beyond the Rubric: Experiential Pedagogy and Rekindling a Love of Learning

John Ferguson
Principal Lecturer

Collaborative Feedback Tools for Empowering Student Growth in Class Presentations

Martin Law
Assistant Professor

Aubry Barnes
Graduate Instructor

Nathan Spencer
Graduate Instructor

Amanda Lilly
Assistant Professor

Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

Pedram Jahangiry
Professional Practice Associate Professor

Naima Bhana Lopez
Assistant Professor

Kristy Bloxham
Professional Practice Professor

Stacy Bevan
Professional Practice Associate Professor

Casey Coombs
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Katherine Vela
Assistant Professor

Julie Stevens
Clinical Assistant Professor

Luthiene Franca
Lecturer

Stephanie Fuller
PhD Student/Graduate Instructor

Empowering Partnerships for Student Success

Cree Taylor
Senior Lecturer

The Systematic Review Assignment Makeover: Evidence Synthesis Edition

Kacy Lundstrom
Research Support Librarian

Rachel Blume
Open Science Librarian

The Kind Classroom: Cultivating Care and Connection beyond the Grade

Jeremy Ricketts
Lecturer

The Write Way: Celebrating Student Work as a Path to Deeper Learning

Mary Ellen Greenwood
Senior Lecturer

Beth Buyserie
Associate Professor & Director of Composition

Rachel Quistberg
Lecturer & Associate Director of Composition

Xiao Tan
Assistant Professor

Kristen Wheaton
Lecturer

Student Stress in Unsupervised Live Animal Learning Experiences

Alexis Sweat
Assistant Professor

Chad Page
Assistant Professor

Amanda Funk
Wellness Specialist

Curriculum Mapping: Setting a Clear Path to Degree Completion

Heloisa M. Rutigliano
Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Programs

Heidi Julander
Program Assistant Senior

Michael S. McEntire
Assistant Professor

Carmen Lau
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Alexis Sweat
Assistant Professor

Kerry A. Rood
Professor

Allison Willoughby
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Pooja Potdar
Instructional Designer II

Marie Yamane
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Enhancing Team Teaching in a Systems-Based DVM Curriculum: A Role-Based Instructional Effort Calculator

Heloisa M. Rutigliano
Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Programs

Alexis Sweat
Assistant Professor

Faculty Fellowships in Community Engagement: Enhancing Community-Engaged Learning

Sunshine Brosi
Professor

Laura Gelfand
Professor

Grupo Sentipensantes: An Open and Spontaneous Educational Community

Eduardo Rodriguez
Bridge Instructor

Sarah O'Neill
Assistant Professor

Leaning Into and Working Around Artificial Intelligence in Assignment Construction

Michael Otteson
Assistant Professor

Assessing Scientific Literacy, Via a Test of Scientific Literacy Skills and as Self-Reported, in a Non-Major Biology Course

Jen Burbank
Senior Lecturer

Lauren La Turner
Undergraduate Student

AI Meets Language Learning: Crafting Chatbot Prompts in the Japanese Classroom

Masaki Minobe
Assistant Professor

Repositioning Teacher Agency Beyond Grades: A Conceptual Framework for Identity-Affirming Mathematics Pedagogy

Patrick Ocran
PhD Student / Graduate Instructor / Graduate Research Assistant

Teaching Generative AI in Graphic Design Classrooms

Kelsey Hall
Associate Professor

Marcelle Langford
Graduate Student

A Graduate Instructor’s Perspective: Reflective Learning through Ungraded Observations in Organismal Biology.

Gavin Munson
Graduate Teaching Assistant/Instructor

Thinking Out Loud with AI: Designing Asynchronous Exams for Real-World Reasoning

Brinley Zabriskie
Assistant Professor

Plot Twist: Your Assignment Doesn't Have to Be a Paper

Kirsten Cox
Digital Scholarship Librarian

Shawn Hall
Instructional Design Librarian

Tasting the Science: Guiding Undergraduates Through Authentic Research in Food Science

Maryann Schneider
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

The Best Thing I Didn't Say: Letting Guest Speakers Teach beyond the Grade

Nate Trauntvein
Associate Professor

Using Metacognition Study Guides to Combat the Illusion of Literacy

Nicholas A. Pardikes
Lecturer

Designing beyond the Grade: A Collaborative Approach to Course Development in a New Veterinary Program

Pooja Potdar
Instructional Designer II

Heidi Julander
Program Assistant Senior

Heloisa Rutigliano
Associate Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Programs

Milestone Conversations: Mentorship and Assessment in Beginning Spanish

Sarah O'Neill
Assistant Professor

Documenting Faculty-to-Student Mentorship: Beyond the Classroom

Jeff Spears
Associate Professor

Hannah Mae Lewis
Associate Professor of Professional Practice

Amanda Deliman
Assistant Professor

Jim LaMuth
Director of Programs, Uintah Basin

Kim K. Hales
Senior Lecturer

Mike Christiansen
Associate Professor

Jenifer Evers
BSW Program Director & Clinical Associate Professor

Rethinking Assessment with AI: Student Agency beyond the Grade

Xiao Tan
Assistant Professor

Russell Winn
Lecturer

Chris Babits
Associate Director of Educational Initiatives and Innovation, Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence

The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning: A Guide to Faculty Development

Summer Gunn
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Elsa Perez
Assistant Professor

Heidi Julander
Staff Assistant

Susan Egbert
Clinical Professor

Making Your Course Content Accessible: A Hands-On Deep Dive

Megan Cox
Digital Accessibility Officer, Digital Accessibility Services

Ike Rogers
Digital Accessibility Coordinator

Rifat Ibn Alam
Accessible Materials Coordinator

David Pruden
Executive Director, Disability Resource Center

What Inclusive Instructors Do and Why It Matters

Marlene Graf
Professional Practice Associate Professor

Sofia Monzon Rodriguez
Assistant Professor

Junjie Tang
Research Assistant

Angela Montague
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Aggie Ventures Initiative: Simplifying Collaboration Across Campus

Chad Mano
Professional Practice Associate Professor

Neal Legler
Executive Director, Center for Instructional Design and Innovation

From Points to Purpose: Confessions of Two Ungraders

J.C. Sheen
Assistant Professor

Julie Stevens
Clinical Assistant Professor

Active Learning, Authentic Assessment: Engaging Students Through Collaboration

Summer Gunn
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Julianne R. Hunter
Doctoral Student/Graduate Research Assistant

Stephen Kwiatek
Assistant Professor

Learn beyond the Lecture: Increase Student Performance without Grading through Supplemental Instruction

Melanie Chambers
Learning Specialist Senior

Lance Stott
Senior Lecturer

Samantha Crockett
Supplemental Instruction Student Coordinator

Hannah Dowding
Supplemental Instruction Team Lead

Experiential Learning Opportunities: Internships, On-Campus Jobs, and Volunteer Work for First-Year Students

Joseph Banks
Assistant Director, Career Design Center

Proponent for Sentience? Strategies to Incorporate Generative AI as an Assessment to Facilitate Deeper Learning

Shane W. Bench
Associate Professor

Leyla Karami Isheqlou
Ph.D. Student

Authentic Human Connection through a Pedagogy of Kindness

Rosa Thornley
Senior Lecturer

Denise Rice-Prior
Instructor

Cree Taylor
Senior Lecturer

Tammy Taylor
Clinical Assistant Professor

Classroom Management Strategies for All Delivery Formats

Jenifer Evers
BSW Program Director & Clinical Associate Professor

Marilyn Cuch
Senior Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Secondary Education Program

Amanda Deliman
Assistant Professor

Sunshine Brosi
Professor & Director

Gustavo Ovando-Montejo
Assistant Professor

Chloe Wilson
Welding Instructor/Lecturer

Krystin Deschamp
Director Student Conduct & Community Standards

David Pruden
Executive Director, Disability Resource Center

From Coverage to Clarity: Designing for Student Self-Awareness Using You, Y'all, We

Logan Haviland
PhD Student/Graduate Instructor

Nicholas A. Pardikes
Lecturer

Stephanie Fuller
PhD Student/Graduate Instructor

Lead the Way: Equipping Students with Leadership Skills That Matter in the Workforce

Alyssa Reidhead
Professional Practice Assistant Professor

Jillian Morley
Assistant Director, Career Design Center

Dealing Out Reflection: A Cards Against Pedagogy Workshop

Chris Babits
Associate Director of Educational Initiatives & Innovation, Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence

Travis Thurston
Executive Director, Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence

Julia M. Gossard
Associate Dean For Faculty Success and Professor

From Feedback to Ownership: Supporting Student Writers with Rubric-Based Reflection

Elena Taylor
Associate Professor

Communication beyond Grading: Nuts and Bolts for a Successful Toolkit

Eliza Rosenberg
Lecturer

Supporting Students with Coping Resources and Dispositional Assessment Practices

Jessie Koltz
Program Director & Assistant Professor

From Classroom to Community: Training the Next Generation of Extension Professionals

Karl Hoopes
Associate Department Head, Associate Professor, & Equine Extension Specialist

Competency-Based Teaching: An Alternative to Traditional Grading

Marlene Graf
Professional Practice Associate Professor

From Classroom to Community: Integrating Real-World Problem Solving Across the Curriculum

Palak Gupta
Assistant Professor

From Consumers to Creators: Assessment, Peer Review, and Reflection through OER-Enabled Pedagogy

Yassin Nacer
Open Education Librarian

"I feel more engaged when my teacher knows my name": Exploring Personal and Emotional Connection in Online Learning

Sana Shahid
Visiting Scholar