The Teaching Professor

Meet Our Contributing Editors

May 2022 marked the retirement of The Teaching Professor’s founding editor and longtime lead contributor, Maryellen Weimer. To carry on the publication’s mission of providing readers with evidence-based ideas and advice for improving learning in their courses, we welcome aboard four new monthly contributors. Look for their writing, exclusive to The Teaching Professor, beginning in June 2022.

Stephen L. Chew is a professor of psychology at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Trained as a cognitive psychologist, one of his primary research areas is the cognitive basis of effective teaching and learning. Chew has worked to translate learning research for teachers and students. He developed a research-based framework of cognitive challenges that teachers must address to engender student learning. He is the creator of a groundbreaking series of YouTube videos for students on how to study effectively which have been viewed almost three million times. Chew is the recipient of multiple national awards for his teaching and research, including being named the 2011 Outstanding Master’s Universities and Colleges U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Chew serves as the chair of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP).

Regan A. R. Gurung is associate vice provost and executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and professor of psychological science at Oregon State University. He has published 16 books, most recently Thriving in Academia: Building a Career in a Teaching Focused Institution and A Pocket Guide to Online Teaching, and over 130 peer-reviewed research articles. He is winner of the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award and the CASE Wisconsin Professor of the Year Award, founding coeditor of APA’s journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, and past president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.

Paul Hanstedt directs the Houston H. Harte Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He has worked with dozens of universities on four continents to support curricular and pedagogical reform and innovation, including a Fulbright year helping Hong Kong move from a three- to a four-year tertiary model. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards and has authored several books, including General Education Essentials and Creating Wicked Students. He will follow you back on Twitter if you seek him out at @curriculargeek.

Amy B. Mulnix is currently the interim associate secretary in the national Phi Beta Kappa office. From 2014 to 2022, she served as founding director of the Faculty Center at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, where she supported faculty across the arc of their careers and the scopes of their academic identities. Prior to that, Amy spent 25+ years teaching biology at Earlham College, a Quaker-affiliated institution, where respect for all persons and social justice permeated the curriculum and pedagogy. She has specialized in evidence-based practices that achieve inclusion, as well as equity-mindedness. Her publications include pieces in CBE—Life Sciences Education, To Improve the Academy, the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, and the Journal of College Science Teaching.