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Garza Calls GTF Program a Transformative Experience

by Jewel Caruso Valdosta State University recently published an article on Linda de la Garza, associate professor of chemistry at VSU, for her transformative experience with the Governor's Teaching Fellows Program offered at the McBee Institute. De la Garza's recent participation in the GTF program helped her renew passion for teaching, and she learned valuable new skills. In the article, she is quoted, "The program allowed me to think not only…

Rosaria Meek
Governor’s Teaching Fellows Alumna Named an ACE Fellow

Rosaria Meek, assistant professor of Spanish and president of the Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education, joins the 2022-2023 cohort of American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows program. In the fall, Meek will begin her placement with the College of Charleston. The ACE Fellows Program is a competitive national leadership development program that places emerging leaders in new campus environments for a year of intensive skills…

Leslie Gordon
Gordon Takes MIHE Experiences in New Direction

Leslie S. Gordon announced that she will leave the McBee Institute and begin pursuing new professional goals full time on July 31. For nearly seven years, Gordon has shared her wide-ranging experience in pedagogical innovation, faculty development, and program management and assessment with the Institute. Gordon became the associate director of the Executive Doctoral Program in Higher Education Management in December 2015, just before the launch…

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Caughran Uses GTF Lessons to Engage Students

Tashia Caughran was honored to be part of the Summer 2021 Governor's Teaching Fellows Program (GTF). Caughran is a senior lecturer of Chemistry at the University of North Georgia, Oconee Campus and was interviewed for a recent UNG blog post by the Center for Teaching, Learning and Leadership about her GTF experience. She said, "My experience was wonderfully positive. I gained not only more teaching tools, but I also gained some personal focus…

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Governor's Teaching Fellows Return to Athens

The Institute of Higher Education hosted a new cohort of the Governor’s Teaching Fellows (GTF) in Athens for a two-week intensive summer program in May. The Institute had decided to defer the summer 2020 cohort to 2021 but still offered a virtual meet and greet last year to get the fellows acquainted and excited about their fellowship. During the in-person session, the fellows participated in hands-on classroom…
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High Impact Practices Discussed by GTF Panelists

The Association of American Colleges and Universities hosted a webinar on March 4, featuring Cynthia Alby and Hasitha Mahabaduge. The webinar shared experiences and lessons learned through implementation of Georgia College’s GC Journeys, a faculty-driven HIPs initiative. GC Journeys asks students to complete five high-impact practices during their undergraduate experience and maps their core curriculum to AAC&U’s Essential Learning Outcomes…

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Mahabaduge Awarded Lifetime Honor

Georgia College experimental physics professor and GTF program alumnus (2019-2020), Hasitha Mahabaduge, received prestigious life-time recognition as a 2020 Fellow of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL). The Fellows are recognized for seeking “new ways of thinking, doing and learning” and striving for “holistic, meaningful, intentional approaches to higher education.” A recent…
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GTF Alumni Team Up for NIH Grant

Two fellows from the 2015 Governor Teaching Fellow program, Karla-Sue Marriott and Anne Katz, are continuing to collaborate through a project to reinforce close-reading skills among science majors. Marriott, interim chair of the Chemistry and Forensic Science Department at Savannah State University, is the PI for a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. Katz, associate professor of Curriculum, Foundations & Reading at…

Chris Greer
GTF Speaker in News for Virtual Field Trips

Dr. Chris Greer, a regular speaker in our GTF program and professor at Georgia College, made the front page of Channel 13 WMAZ's website for his innovative use of technology in the classroom. Dr Greer worked with a graduate assistant, Hannah Jones, to create a YouTube channel called Virtual Reality Georgia. The channel offers 3D "field trips" to Georgia's historical tourist destinations for schools that wouldn't be able to organize…
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Mahabaduge Receives Prestigious USG Teaching Award

Congratulations to Dr. Hasitha Mahabaduge, assistant professor of physics and 2019-20 Governor’s Teaching Fellow, who was recently named the 2020 recipient of the University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents Felton Jenkins Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award—bestowed for "a strong commitment to teaching and student success." The Felton Jenkins Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award is one of six annual Teaching in Excellence awards presented by the…
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