Bridging Dialogues: Partnering with To Improve the Academy

Centering Centers

In this episode, Liz Norell shares her educational developer journey and discusses plans for the forthcoming partnership between Centering Centers, a POD Network podcast, and To Improve the Academy, its flagship peer-reviewed journal.

Dr. Liz Norell is Associate Director of Instructional Support at the University of Mississippi's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Prior to joining UM, Liz spent more than two decades in higher education as an instructor and (for a brief time early in graduate school) working as a digital communicator in a university marketing office. She spent more than a decade working as an adjunct instructor at a variety of institutions in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and in middle Tennessee before spending seven years in a tenure-track role at a Tennessee community college. During that time, she developed a strong interest in pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is the author of the forthcoming book from the new OU Press series edited by Jim Lang and Michelle Miller, The Present Professor. In her role at UM, she'll be working with faculty to design, execute, and publish their own SoTL projects, as well as engaging with the breadth of teaching center activities (workshops, book clubs, consultations, etc.). She divides her time between Oxford, Miss. and Monteagle, Tenn. Her partner teaches math and computer science at the University of the South (Sewanee). They have two kids, two dogs, and a very calm existence. Liz reads voraciously and loves to travel.

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