Keynote Speakers

Barbara Cambridge
Barbara Cambridge is director of the Washington, DC office of the National Council of Teachers of English and consultant for the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Past president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, she currently serves on the Boards of the Washington Internship Institute and the Teacher Education Accreditation Council. Cambridge co-directs the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research and serves as consulting editor for Change magazine. Cambridge is professor emerita of English at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Her latest publications include edited books on electronic portfolios and on campus support for the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Darren Cambridge

Darren Cambridge (Wabash '96) teaches in New Century College, which offers first year experience and integrative studies programs at George
Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He co-leads the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research. Co-editor of Electronic Portfolios 2.0 (Stylus, 2008), his work also appears in the Journal of General Education, Computers &
Education and Metropolitan Universities.

Charles Blaich
Charles Blaich currently serves as the Director of Inquiries at the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1986. After a research post-doc at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Psychology at Eastern Illinois University from 1987-1991. Blaich joined Wabash College in the fall of 1991 and assumed his current position at the Center of Inquiry in 2002. Blaich is also currently directing the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education. Blaich's recent publications include "Do Liberal Arts Colleges Really Foster Good Practices in Undergraduate Education?" and "Liberal Arts Colleges and Liberal Arts Education: New Evidence on Impacts."

Luncheon Speaker 

Tony Ciccone

Anthony A. Ciccone (Ph.D. SUNY/Buffalo) is Senior Scholar and Director of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Professor of French and Director of the Center for Instructional and Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tony has authored a book and several articles on Molière, as well as two French language textbooks. He has presented the scholarship of teaching and learning nationally, provided chapters for Campus Progress and Creating a New Kind of University on doing SoTL work at the institutional level, and recently published his own SoTL work in a special edition of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Tony is past Director of the Wisconsin Teaching Scholars program, recipient of a Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence in 2005. He has been recognized for his teaching by the university and received the French Teacher of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers.

Plenary Leaders

David Schodt, Director, Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts, St. Olaf College

David is Professor of Economics at St. Olaf College. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He teaches economics and oversees the College's learning and teaching program for faculty, a component of which is support for the scholarship of teaching and learning.  In cooperation with Carleton College, he established the first Innovations in the Scholarship of TEaching and Learning at Liberal Arts Colleges, held in 2005 and 2007.  He is currently part of Carnegie's CASTL Institutional Leadership Program.

Chico Zimmerman, Coordinator, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton College

Adrienne Christiansen, Director, Jan Serie Center for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Macalester College

Gregg Wentzell, Assistant to Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, Miami University

Gregg Wentzell, Miami University (Ohio), earned his Ph.D. at Miami in English in 1993. He is managing editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, a peer-reviewed international forum for the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the Learning Communities Journal, a peer-reviewed venue for discussion of student and faculty learning communities. He has over 20 years of college teaching experience and teaches part-time in the MU English Department. In addition to providing editing support for various Center programs and activities, including the International Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Gregg does faculty consulting and performs small-group instructional diagnosis (SGID) on campus to elicit feedback on student learning. He presents seminars on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and on faculty development both on-campus and at teaching and learning conferences nationally and internationally. He presented a plenary session at the London SOTL Conference in May 2008 and has done presentations and workshops at the Professional and Organizational Developers’ (POD) Network in Higher Education Conference, the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) Conference, and the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference.

Darren Cambridge

New Century College, George Mason University