Mary-Ann Winkelmes

Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Dr. Winkelmes’s contributions to ACUE’s Community of Professional Practice include:

Winkelmes is the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Brandeis University and a Senior Fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), where she served as a partner in the AAC&U’s LEAP project, Transparency and Problem-Centered Learning. Previously, she served as director of faculty development at UNLV and is the founder and principal investigator of TILTHigherEd.org.

Winkelmes has held senior leadership roles in the campus teaching centers at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois. She has consulted and provided professional development programming for faculty through the Lilly Endowment’s higher education grant-making and teacher-training programs, and for teaching centers in the US and abroad. She has also served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Professional Development Network in Higher Education (POD), and Chair of its Research Committee.

Her work to improve higher education learning and teaching, especially for historically underserved students, has been recognized nationally by the Chronicle of Higher Education and with the POD Network’s Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development. She founded and directs the Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Project (TILT Higher Ed), which promotes direct conversation between teachers and students about methods of teaching and learning and helps faculty to share data on students’ learning across institutions and countries. The impact of this project on students’ learning has been the focus of publications in the National Teaching and Learning Forum, Project Information Literacy, the National Education Association’s Higher Education Advocate, and AAC&U’s Liberal Education and Peer Review.

Winkelmes advocates her view that research, teaching, and learning are best practiced as a unified enterprise that benefits students and society in An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie. Winkelmes has also published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on college teaching and learning and on the history of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy, Benedictine church design and decoration, acoustics, and religious architecture. She has received numerous teaching awards as well as grants for her art historical research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kress, Delmas, and Mellon foundations.

Winkelmes holds a PhD from Harvard University.