CET&L STAFF

The CET&L staff consist of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development, the Director, three Graduate Assistants, and one Undergraduate Assistant.

	Wayne Hall, PhD (wayne.hall@uc.edu) Dr. Wayne Hall is currently the Vice Provost for Faculty Development. During his first twenty years at UC, Dr. Hall’s research concentrated on modern Irish literature; over the past five years, that concentration has shifted to the scholarship of teaching and learning. His administrative work allows him to help coordinate a wide variety of initiatives designed to enhance students’ learning experiences, especially at the undergraduate level. Dr. Hall’s own classroom teaching allows him to learn from his students what works best toward that broader university goal.
	Pamela Baker, PhD (pamela.baker@uc.edu) Pamela Baker is UC's Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning (CET&L) and is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of History in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences.She began her career at the University of Illinois at Chicago helping to create and design a program for preparing future faculty and then moved on to the Center for First Year Experience at UC, where she worked closely with faculty to promote strategies that engage students and promote enhanced learning. Over the past decade, she has pursued teaching and learning both in and outside of the classroom, applying what she has learned from her experiences in a variety of contexts. Her own teaching style relies heavily on active and experiential learning techniques. Her primary strategy is to get students excited about history through the study of primary source documents in order to encourage them in developing their own interpretations about the past. Dr. Baker is in the process of completing an article for The History Teacher which explores ways to engage non-history majors in historical research at the undergraduate level. She is also working on a document reader for use in undergraduate courses that explores overland migrations during the early American republic.
	Liz Tilton, PhD (metilton@gmail.com) Liz Tilton has taught composition and creative writing to traditional and nontraditional learners ranging from basic writers to honors students and on campuses that extend from the urban university to the open-access, rural community college. Liz's poems have appeared in Southern Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Humanities Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications; her chapbook Salt is forthcoming from Kent State Unversity Press in spring 2009. Before joining CET&L, Liz worked as the Associate Editor for the Cincinnati Review, UC’s nationally recognized literary journal.
	John Callaghan (jpc_45@yahoo.com) John Callaghan is working toward a PhD in Political Science. He previously served 10 years as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force and completed a master's degree in Strategic Intelligence at the Joint Military Intelligence College.  He then directed the Air Force's "Intelligence Officer Basic Course," the program through which all Air Force intelligence officers receive their credentials. After leaving the military, John taught in the Dublin (Ohio) school system before serving as a UC teaching assistant in American Politics, Comparative Government, and International Relations. John was selected to attend the 2007 Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (SWOTT), a workshop sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and he is currently studying the causes of and responses to political violence.
	Robert Kallmeyer (robert.kallmeyer@uc.edu) Rob Kallmeyer is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies. Rob has taught a variety of courses including statistics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethics, and a learning community course on Integrative Learning. He is currently studying the impact of learning communities on college student motivation and success.
	Royston "JR" Lewars JR is a second-year student at UC and joined the CET&L in the winter of 2007. He has yet to declare a major, although he has a passion for Political Science. This interest has led him to be an intern with Student Government, and most recently a UC senatorial candidate. JR is involved with other student activities including the Racial Awareness Program (RAPP), ADVANCE, and as a mentee for the Collegiate 100 Men's Honorary Program. In summer 2007, JR served UC as a student orientation leader for incoming first-year students. Through these activities he seeks to contribute to the betterment of the UC community.