Diplomas:

Ph.D. (1989) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. (1982) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. (1979) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Invited Workshops

• "Fostering an Attitude of Inquiry in Our Students," Point Loma Nazarene University, 2012
• "Course Design for Critical Thinking," Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne, 2012
• "Team-Based Learning for Critical Thinking," University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 2012
• "Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking," Texas Wesleyan University, 2012
• "Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking," College of Western Idaho, 2012
• "Critical Thinking: How Can We Teach It?" and other topics; with Tine Reimers, Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile, 2011
• "Transforming Ourselves to Transform Our Students," Walsh College, MI, 2011
• "Turning Beginners into Thinkers," Moravian College, PA, 2011
• "Engaging Students to Promote Critical Thinking," Oregon State University, 2011
• "The Critical Thinking Classroom," Georgia College and State University, 2011
• "Teach and Learn with Your Brain" and "Team-Based Learning," Johnson and Wales University, 2011
• "Thinking Critically about Teaching Critical Thinking," Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2011
• "Turning Beginners into Thinkers," Colorado State University, 2010
• "Teaching Critical Thinking," Salve Regina College, 2010
• "The Shape of Teaching in the Critical Thinking Classroom," Johnson and Wales University, 2010
• "Thinking Critically about Teaching Critical Thinking," Northern Illinois University, 2010
• “Critical Thinking, Technology and Team-Based Learning,” Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, 2010
• "Thinking Critically about Teaching Critical Thinking," Rider University, New Jersey, 2010
• "Thinking about Thinking," Muhlenberg College, PA, 2010
• “Turning Beginners into Thinkers” and other topics, State University of NY-Brockport, 2010
• “Thinking Critically about Teaching Critical Thinking” and other topics, with Tine Reimers, New Mexico State University, 2009
• “Data-Driven Inquiry,” Castleton State College, Vermont, 2009
• “Transforming Ourselves to Transform Our Students,” University of Arkansas, 2009
• “How Faculty Development Centers Can Transform Universities,” with Tine Reimers, Chilean Ministry of Education, Santiago, 2008
• “Rediscovering the Disciplines through Research Fundamentals,” North Carolina State University, 2008
• “Designing Courses that Foster Critical Thinking,” Castleton State University, Vermont, 2008
• “Re-problematizing the Disciplines to Promote Critical Thinking,” University of Alaska, Fairbanks 2008
• “Driving High-Impact Learning,” ST University, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2007
• “Strategies for Problematizing the Material of your Discipline,” Clemson University 2007
• “Fostering Neo-Experts,” keynote plenary session, Lilly Conference South, Greensboro 2007
• “Teaching Critical Thinking in a Competency-based Curriculum,” with Tine Reimers, Ministry of Education, Talca, Chile 2006
• “Using Inquiry Guided Methods to Elicit Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, North Carolina State University 2006
• “Designing Curricula for Student Inquiry,” with Tine Reimers, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion, Santiago, Chile 2006
• “Designing Courses for Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 2006
• “Subverting the Academic Model,” Marshall University, 2006
• “Promoting Learning that Matters,” ST University, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2006
• “How Should We Transform Universities?” Chilean Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile 2005
• “Re-thinking Gateway Courses: Creating Conditions for Discovery-Learning,” with Tine Reimers, New Mexico State University 2005
• “Teaching Critical Thinking in the Health Sciences,” Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia 2005
• “What Every New Instructor Should Know About Critical Thinking,” PFF Session for Howard University and UT El Paso 2005
• “Designing Lessons for Critical Thinking and Discovery Learning,” with Tine Reimers, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 2005
• “Teaching Critical Thinking in Your Discipline,” with Tine Reimers, California State University—Bakersfield 2005
• “Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, University of New Mexico 2005
• “Critical Thinking for Faculty and TA’s,” with Tine Reimers, University of Notre Dame 2005
• “Building Academic Programs with a Critical Thinking Goal,” Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte 2005
• Thinking Critically about the Teaching of Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, Michigan State University, East Lansing 2004
• “Are We Really Doing It? Critical Thinking for University Teachers,” University of Central Oklahoma 2004
• “Teaching Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, University of South Florida 2004
• “Three Workshops on Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, New Mexico State University 2004
• “What Managers Need to Know about Teaching their Employees to Think Critically” El Paso City Government 2003
• “Assessing Student Learning Styles,” with Tine Reimers, US Air Force Academy 2002
• “Designing Critical Thinking Activities,” Medical School, Indiana University-Evanston 2000

Conference Presentations

• “Engage Your Faculty for Leaderly Thinking” with Tine Reimers, Billie Franchini, and David Pettie, POD Conference, Atlanta, 2011
• “Why Students Struggle with Abstraction—and What You Can Do about It,” with Tine Reimers, POD Conference, Houston, 2009
• “Think Before You Know” Lilly East, University of Delaware, 2009
• “The Courage to Think: Using Uncertainty and Error to Foster an Attitude of Inquiry” Lilly South, Greensboro, 2009
• “Teaching University Beginners: Weaving Judgment into Knowing,” with Tine Reimers, POD Conference, Reno, 2008
• «De débutants à penseurs : vers un paradigme transformatif et multidisciplinaire à travers l’enquête et la découverte», with Tine Reimers, AIPU Conference (Association
• Internationale de la Pédagogie Universitaire), Montpellier 2008
• “The Case of the Neo-Scientists,” Lilly Conference East featured workshop, Newark 2008
• “Turning Beginners into Thinkers,” Lilly Conference South featured workshop, Greensboro 2008
• “Re-Problematizing the disciplines: how we can transcend academe’s false priorities,” with Tine Reimers, POD Conference, Pittsburgh 2007
• « L’encouragement de la pensée critique (une stratégie pour faciliter l’élaboration d’activités transformatives) », AIPU Conference, Montreal 2007
• “Using Raw Data to Launch Inquiry: A strategy for designing activities that promote critical thinking,” Lilly Conference University of Delaware 2007
• “Rethinking How We Teach Beginners” Lilly Conference South, Greensboro 2006
• “Data Drive Inquiry,” with Tine Reimers, POD Conference, Milwaukee 2005
• “Teaching Critical Thinking at Your Campus,” with Tine Reimers, POD Conference, Montreal 2004
• “Portfolios for Teachers,” EIFEL Conference (European E-learning), Poitiers 2003
• “Teaching Critical Thinking at All Levels of Education,” CAST (Consortium for American Science Teachers), El Paso 2002
• “Using the Perry Scheme to Teach Critical Thinking,” with Tine Reimers, Lilly Conference Texas, San Marcos 2002
• “Motivation and Assessment,” with Tine Reimers, IUPUI Faculty Development Conference, Indianapolis 1999
• “Getting Beyond Lecture,” IUPUI Faculty Development Conference, Indianapolis 1998