| August 3, 2020

In a year full of change, we have high hopes for the insight and development of the 2020-21 fellowship cohorts. While it’s easy to understand the desire for some to ride out the changes already underway during a year in a pandemic, these individuals have risen to the call of fellowship opportunities and the dedication to make an impact within the campus community.

Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellows

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program (ALP), provides intensive leadership and managerial development, addressing the challenges of academic administration at major research universities like tightening budgets, changing student populations, and increasing pressures from external sources. Many of the program’s nearly 1,000 fellows have gone on to serve as college presidents, provosts, and deans. This year’s fellowship recipients are:

  • Maria Isabel Ayala, Associate Professor and Director, Chicano/Latino Studies, College of Social Science
  • Peter Berg, Professor and School Director, College of Social Science
  • Joanna Bosse, Professor and Associate Dean, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
  • Bethan Cantwell, Director of Institutional Research, Office of Planning and Budgets
  • Glenn Chambers, Professor and Associate Dean, Office of the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies, College of Social Science
  • Kirsten Tollefson, Professor and Associate Dean, The Graduate School

The Big Ten Academic Alliance program is under the guidance of Theodore H. Curry II.

AAN Leadership Fellows

The AAN Leadership Fellows program creates partnerships between mentors (current administrators) and fellows. This program involves both a shadowing experience and work on a project developed jointly between the mentor and fellow.

This year-long experience is open to faculty and academic staff who are interested in learning about diverse leadership roles. This year’s cohort includes:

  • Ryan Sweeder, Professor, Lyman Briggs College.
    Mentored by Prabu David, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
  • Terah Venzant Chambers, Professor and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion, College of Education.
    Mentored by Chris Long, Dean, College of Arts and Letters
  • Christie Poitra, Interim Director of the Michigan State University (MSU) Native American Institute (NAI), College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
    Mentored by Thomas Jeitschko, Associate Provost and Dean, The Graduate School
  • Rebecca Malouin, Director of Research and Master of Science in Global Health Program, Institute for Global Health, Interim Director, Canadian Studies Center, and Associate Professor,  College of Osteopathic Medicine.
    Mentored by Steve Hanson, Associate Provost and Dean, International Studies and Programs

The AAN Leadership Fellows Leadership Program is under the guidance of Cindi Leverich.

Adams Academy Fellows

The Adams Academy Fellowship program brings together a cross-disciplinary group of faculty and academic staff for a year-long fellowship focused on teaching and learning. Adams Academy Fellows explore the literature on effective university teaching and learning practices and consider how this robust body of research can guide instructional decisions in the courses they teach. Participants learn from and contribute to a community of teacher-scholars committed to excellence in teaching and learning. This year’s cohort includes:

  • Jameel Al-Haddad, Instructor – Fixed Term, College of Natural Science
  • George H. Berghorn, Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Alissa Cohen, Academic Specialist-Teaching, College of Arts & Letters
  • Roozbeh Dargazany, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
  • Allison Eden, Associate Professor, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
  • Crystal Eustice, Academic Specialist-Teaching, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Fayyaz Hussain, Associate Professor, College of Social Science
  • Huey-Wen Lin, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Science
  • Nicole McCleese, Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
  • Amol Pavangadkar, Senior Academic Specialist-Teaching, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
  • Rajiv Ranjan, Assistant Professor Fixed-Term, College of Arts & Letters
  • Catherine Ryu, Associate Professor, Arts and Letters
  • Alyssa Winslow, Academic Specialist-Teaching, College of Veterinary Medicine

Adams Academy is a collaboration between the Academic Advancement Network and the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology under the guidance of Jeff Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching Learning and Technology.

Lilly Fellows

The goal of the 2020-2021 Lilly Fellowship program is to develop academic leaders who will guide the university into the near future with regard to learning, teaching, and educational programming. Participants focus their work on a project of their choosing that will make a substantial contribution to a unit’s educational efforts. The unit can be a program or a department, but it can also be a college or a university unit or initiative. Using the proposed project as a foundation, participants will also learn leadership concepts and models, build specific skills, learn more about how the university works, and practice what they learn through the activities of their project and small group mentoring and coaching. This year’s Lilly Fellows include:

The Lilly Fellowship Program is a collaboration between the Academic Advancement Network and the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology under the guidance of Jeff Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching Learning and Technology.

 

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