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Dr. Aditi Pai (Governor's Teaching Fellow, 2018-19) is featured in an article on classroom tips for retaining STEM majors. Pai's approach to engaging students in science discussions is to make it about them. She notes, "Natural selection is not something that happens just to dogs and giraffes and whatever the textbook is talking about. It’s something we—as humans—are experiencing." Read the full article on Course Hero.

IHE faculty member Leslie Gordon will greet the 2019-2020 Governor's Teaching Fellows (GTF) in September as the program’s new director. "I am grateful for the opportunity to work with this wonderful faculty development program and its past and present fellows," said Gordon. "IHE has a strong commitment to education in Georgia, and I look forward to being a part of that tradition through this well-respected program." Gordon has wide-ranging…

Marguerite Koepke retired as the director of the Governor’s Teaching Fellows program (GTF) at the conclusion of the summer symposium this year. Koepke is professor emerita in the College of Environment and Design and had held a courtesy appointment at the Institute of Higher Education (IHE) to lead the program since 2000. Koepke brought her deep and abiding interest in the art and science of teaching and learning to GTF. She provided guiding…