Catherine Haras’ contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:
• Engaging Students in Readings and Microlectures (webinar)
She is the senior director of the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning (CETL) at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), where she is responsible for promoting faculty educational development through evidence-based teaching practice. She is a tenured member of the university’s library faculty.
Dr. Alyson Snowe’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:
• Organizing Your Online Course (webinar)
Dr. Snowe serves as Assistant Professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island. She has worked with thousands of students, face-to-face and online, across several colleges across the Northeast. Her research and teaching interests include first-year composition; pedagogical principles of writing and rhetoric; digital communication; technical writing; and interdisciplinary writing.
Flower Darby’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:
• Engaging Students in Readings and Microlectures (webinar)
• Planning and Facilitating Quality Discussions (webinar)
• Managing Your Online Presence (webinar)
Flower Darby, Director of Teaching for Student Success at Northern Arizona University, teaches online courses at the university and at Estrella Mountain Community College. She is the author of “How to Be A Better Online Instructor,” an advice guide published by The Chronicle, and Small Teaching Online, with James M. Lang. An educator with over twenty-three years of teaching and instructional design experience in higher education, Ms. Darby speaks, writes, and consults on student learning and success through excellence in teaching.
Yelinek is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Yelinek is an instructor at Colorado State University, where she works in the Composition Program teaching introductory and intermediate writing courses, with a special focus on working with students who are nonnative English speakers. She has codeveloped a summer experiential learning workshop that combines principles of composition and sustainability in which the students partner with community organizations to work on real-life projects. In addition, Yelinek has taught English for nonnative English speakers at a private language school in Dębica, Poland, and spent a semester as a visiting instructor at Vietnam National University of Forestry.
Yelinek graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Geology. She also holds an MS in Geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an MA in English from Colorado State University with a concentration in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language.
Dr. Quinn is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Quinn is an Associate Professor of English at McKendree University, where she teaches courses in composition and professional and technical writing. She was a part-time instructor at Colorado State University-Global Campus and was a visiting instructor at the University of Toledo. Quinn also managed course creation and revision projects as an instructional designer at Colorado State University-Global Campus. Prior to CSU-Global, she served as an Academic Skills Coordinator in the TRiO Student Support Services Program at Lourdes University.
Quinn earned her BA in English–Creative Writing, from the University of Toledo. She holds an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction, an EdS in Education Administration and Leadership, as well as a PhD in English–Rhetoric and Composition from Bowling Green State University.
Quinn published a co-authored article titled “Using a Multi-Perspective Design Team to Develop and Manage Multi-Layered Online Courses” in Selected Papers from the 25th International Conference of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education and “The Protection Silence Does Not Offer” in Dósis: Medical Humanities and Social Justice. She was a recipient of the 2016 Faculty Peer Collaboration Award from Colorado State University-Global Campus for her active outreach and partnership in projects with faculty and staff across campus.
Dr. Hellmund is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Hellmund is an instructor in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University, where his teaching is focused on sustainability planning and experiential education for sustainability. He is also the Principal and President of Hellmund Associates, an environmental consulting firm based in Fort Collins, Colorado, that works with communities to find and implement fundamental aspects of sustainability to help prepare them for the challenges of the future. In addition, he is Principal and Co-Founder of El Laboratorio, the research arm of the nonprofit Americas for Conservation and the Arts.
For 10 years (2005–2015), he was President of the Conway School (Massachusetts) and its graduate program in sustainable landscape planning and design, where he oversaw community-based sustainability projects throughout New England and other parts of the United States, as well as in Panama, Mexico, Chile, and Italy. Graduate instruction at Conway was through project-based, experiential learning.
Hellmund’s professional activities are a close intertwining of innovative university teaching and writing. He is an ecological designer and conservation planner, with more than 30 years of professional experience. A Harvard-educated landscape architect and planner, he was born and raised in the Republic of Panama.
Hellmund holds a BS in Landscape Horticulture (Design) from Colorado State University and a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also undertook advanced graduate work at Harvard University and Wageningen University (The Netherlands).
Siegel is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Siegel is a Professor of Informatics, Instructional Systems Technology, and Cognitive Science. He recently served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Informatics. Prior to serving in this position, he served as the Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Design Program, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, the Executive Associate Dean of the School, and the first Chair of the Informatics Department.
From 1991 to 1999, Siegel was the Director of Research and Development at the Center for Excellence in Education. In this context, he founded Indiana University’s first start-up company, WisdomTools. The company focused on the development of “next generation” learning tools designed to develop deep, insightful learning. Siegel is among a group of pioneers in online learning, beginning with his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the PLATO system. At the University of Illinois, he was a professor in the Departments of Information Science and Educational Psychology. Additionally, he was the Assistant Director of the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) and Head of CERL’s Curriculum and Applications Group. In 1988, he was Microsoft’s first Faculty Fellow.
Before coming to Indiana University in 1991, Siegel served as Director of Professional Services at Authorware (which became Macromedia and is now a part of Adobe). Siegel’s research at Indiana University focuses on the design of digital learning environments, slow change interaction design, and design pedagogy. He co-directed with Erik Stolterman a National Science Foundation grant on design methods.
Siegel earned BS and MS degrees in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and holds a PhD in Educational Psychology, also from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Siegel is writing a book about teaching and learning design, The Design Habit: From Non-designer to Designer. He is also working on the development of a new company, Glerb, based on a concept he’s been working on for a few years. Its tagline is “Everyone has something to learn; everyone has something to teach.”
Dr. Bromley is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Bromley is currently an Associate Professor at Franklin College, and she serves as the department chair. She primarily teaches courses related to counseling and clinical psychology, as well as the professional development courses within the Psychology major. Previously, she taught undergraduate and graduate students at both large public and small private institutions as an adjunct instructor while working full time as a licensed psychologist in university counseling centers. Bromley is a licensed counseling psychologist with experience in a variety of clinical settings including community mental health, domestic violence, private practice, and university counseling centers. Prior to coming to Franklin College, Bromley was a staff psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh providing individual, couples, and group therapy to students. She also provided supervision and training to predoctoral graduate students as part of the APA-accredited internship training program.
Bromley earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. She holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, and she earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Akron in Ohio. Her training in Counseling Psychology and her clinical work with college students helped her develop her interest and passion in students’ career development.
Bromley’s current focus on research has been on the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has presented at regional and national conferences on using games to teach, research self-efficacy, and mentoring programs. Her most recent work has focused on integrating career development in the psychology undergraduate curriculum. Bromley presented on “Faculty’s Role in Preparing Students for Their Careers” at the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) conference in Chicago (Bromley & Paulsen, 2017). She serves as a reviewer for the journal The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Bromley recently earned recognition with receiving the Faculty Steering Committee Distinguished Service Award at Franklin College, and she was selected to serve on the Psi Chi Steering Committee for MPA to help develop programming for students.
Dr. Flora is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Flora is the Roscoe W. Payne Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Psychology at Franklin College, where she teaches courses in Lifespan Development, Social Psychology, and Research Methods.
Prior to coming to Franklin College, Flora was a Research Outcomes Analyst for ProHealth Care in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where she led research efforts for the Neuroscience and Orthopedic departments.
Flora earned BS degrees in Psychology and Chemistry from Valparaiso University. She holds an MS and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Flora authors ancillary materials for introductory psychology textbooks for Macmillan Learning, and most recently completed the slide deck for Pomerantz’s My Psychology (Macmillan Learning). Her primary research interest is the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Flora was awarded the Dietz Award for Faculty Excellence from Franklin College in 2015 and was honored as the Franklin College Academic Advisor of the Year in 2011.
Dr. Callon is featured in ACUE’s Career Guidance and Readiness course.
Callon is the Leo T. and Leah Jackson Wolford Professor of Mathematics at Franklin College, where he teaches courses throughout the mathematics curriculum and in the liberal arts core.
From 1979 to 1987, Callon was an instructor and then a tenured Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Miami University, where he taught courses in numerical analysis, calculus, linear algebra, and developmental mathematics. He also taught mathematics at Columbus East High School before beginning graduate school.
Callon holds a BA in Mathematics from Franklin College, an MA in Mathematics from Indiana University Bloomington, and a PhD in Mathematics—Numerical Analysis from the University of Cincinnati.
Callon has twice been awarded the Franklin College Clifford and Paula Dietz Award for Faculty Excellence and was the Franklin College nominee for the Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education Professor of the Year Award in 2004. He has also received the Distinguished Service Award and the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
