Contributors

Gillian (Jill) D. Ellern, M.L.I.S. is an Associate Professor and the Systems Librarian at Western Carolina University. She was the Chair of the Collegial Review committee and later the Vice-Chair of the Faculty Senate during which time she was a major coordinator and editor of the revised WCU Faculty Handbook.

George Ford, P.E. is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Kimmel School of Construction Management and Technology at Western Carolina University. He is a licensed professional engineer (mechanical) in both North Carolina and South Carolina and worked for over fifteen years in the corporate world in plant engineering and environmental engineering positions. His research is primarily in the field of energy management.

Richard A. Gale is a Visiting Scholar at Mount Royal College in Calgary AB. He has worked previously with Royal Roads University in Victoria BC and Douglas College in New Westminster BC. From 2002-2007 he served as Senior Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching where he worked on such initiatives as the Integrative Learning Project and the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Lorraine Gilpin, Ed. D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Georgia Southern University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in elementary education and ESOL. Prior to academe, she taught in public schools in Jamaica and the United States. Her research, embedded in the scholarship of teaching and learning, revolves around multicultural education; education for social justice; and teaching and learning communities.

Amy Goodburn, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University in 1994. She teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Goodburn’s research focuses on ethnographic and teacher research, multicultural pedagogies, and curriculum development.

Dr. Hargis is an Assistant Provost and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA as well as an Associate Professor in the School of Education. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in the chemical sciences and he has earned a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Science Education, specializing in the area of informal learning settings and emerging instructional technologies, which is the focus of his research agenda.

Dr. Alison I. Morrison-Shetlar, Ph.D., is Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Biology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). In 1984 Dr. Morrison-Shetlar received her doctorate from Dundee College of Technology. She has served as Head of the Molecular Biology Department at the Max-Planck Institute for System Physiology, in Germany: taught and did research at Wesleyan University and Trinity College in Connecticut, Georgia Southern University and the University of Central Florida.

Hollye Moss, Ph.D., is an associate professor of management at Western Carolina University teaching undergraduate and graduate operations management as well as undergraduate statistics and quantitative methods. Her research is primarily in the field of service operations management.

Paul Savory, Ph.D., is interim Associate Vice chancellor of Extended Education & Outreach and an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 1993. His teaching and research interests include engineering education, discrete-event computer simulation, engineering management, statistics, and operations research.

Barbara Jo White, Ph.D., is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Dominican Republic, '87-'89) who teaches information systems at Western Carolina University. Working for not-for-profit organizations made her realize the value of databases and information! While in the Peace Corps, she created The World Map Project in which map-makers use a gridded guide map to hand draw and paint large world maps on school walls. She has always wanted to do a SoTL article on using the World Map Project to teach Geography (and Spanish, with the Spanish instructions).Free map-making materials at http://tinyurl.com/makemaps Email her at whiteb@email.wcu.edu.