Welcome to The Alliance
The Alliance for Teaching Enrichment is an organization of faculty created to bring together those most interested in student success, quality instruction, and advancing the academic mission of the university.
Events
2025 The Alliance Teaching Showcase: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Location: International Ballroom, Walb Union [Purdue Fort Wayne]
Previous Events
- 2024 Showcase
Alliance Showcase - Friday, November 8, 2024 | 4:30 to 7:30 @ Alumni Center
2024 Alliance Showcase Agenda [PDF]
2024 Alliance Showcase Program [PDF]
- 2023 Showcase
Alliance Showcase - Thursday, November 2, 2023 | 4:30 to 7:30 @ Alumni Center
- 2022 Showcase
Alliance 2022 Teaching Showcase | November 3rd 4:30 - 7:30 @ Alumni Center
- 2021 Showcase
Alliance 2021 Teaching Showcase | October 28th 4:30 - 7:30 @ International Ballroom
- 2019 Showcase
Our Mission
The Alliance is a community of educators committed to the celebration, development, and elevation of a diverse culture of teaching at Purdue Fort Wayne and in our region. We seek to enrich teaching and learning by fostering a collaborative community to serve faculty, staff, and students dedicated to the pursuit of authentic learning. The Alliance promotes creativity, boldness, enjoyment, and growth as pathways to excellence in teaching and learning.
The values of our alliance are the following:
- Collaboration
- Boldness
- Diversity and inclusion
- Enjoyment
- Meaningful work
- Mutual service and support
- Creativity
- Organizational Structure
Current Alliance Members [PDF]
Board of the Alliance for Teaching Enrichment (BOATE)
Our charge is to plan, continuously improve, budget, maintain liaison with faculty and administration, and manage the calendar.
We are composed of captains of other teams, appropriate assistant/associate vice chancellor from academic affairs, and two at-large members elected from the membership. The admiral of this committee must be a member of the Alliance and is elected by the board.
Celebration Team
The Celebration Team celebrates bold and creative teaching and enacts values of inclusion, diversity, and enjoyment. This team has at least three major campus units represented by their members.
Membership Team
The Membership Team has the following responsibilities:
- Recruit members
- Develop, enhance and manage benefits of membership
- Foster continuing involvement
Outreach Team
The Outreach Team serves as a hub for sharing ideas. They collaborate with other campus bodies such as CELT, FACET, DCS, OACS, and University Research and Innovation. They also facilitate interest groups from campus and community for specific teaching related topics.
The Outreach Team generally has five to seven members that represent FACET, CELT, and can have three additional faculty or staff members, as well as two students.
Scholarly Teaching Team
Identify and disseminate teaching innovations, creativity, and high-impact activities for the purpose of helping students learn.
Student Team
The Student Team shares students perspectives and experiences with faculty to improve teaching, learning and student success..
This team is composed of five faculty and three students who coordinate with advisors and Purdue's Institutional Review Board.
Team Members
Celebration Team
- Betsy Berry
- Jeff Casazza
- Melissa Curry
- Julie Hill-Lauer (Team Captain)
- Isabel Nunez
- Sharon Parnin
- Terri Swim
- Heather Tierney
Membership Team
- Erin Baldauf
- Thomas Bolinger
- Steven Cody (Team Captain)
- Rebecca Coffman
- Chris Dessent
- John Egger
- Claudio Freitas
- Tim Grove
- Deb Huffman
- Soni Jha
- Michael Kirchner
- Chris Kuznar
- Matthew Melville
- Paresh Mishra
- Kim O'Connor
- Brad Oliver
- Michelle Parker
- Austin Rausch
- Luke Rodesiler
- John Romey
- Michele Shawver
- Julia Smith
- Guoping Wang
- Michael Wang
Outreach Team
- Beth Christian (Team Captain)
- Karol Dehr
- Katie Jia
- John LaMaster
- Michele Shawver
- Yvonne Zubovic
Scholarly Teaching Team
- Jane Leatherman (Team Captain)
- Laurel Campbell
- Farah Combs
- Shannon Johnson
- Rachel Ramsey
- Worth Weller
Student Team
- Kristin Barker
- Barry Dupen
- Becca Essig (Team Captain)
- Carla Overdahl
- Kevin Stoller
- Troy Tonner
BOATE (Team Captains)
- Beth Christian (Outreach)
- Steven Cody (Membership)
- Adam Dircksen (At Large)
- Becca Essig (Student)
- Julie Hill-Lauer (Celebration)
- Deb Huffman (Assesssment)
- Jane Leatherman (Scholarly)
- Aaron McCord (At Large)
- Kim O'Connor (AVCAA)
Other Teaching Support
Check out other teaching support on our campus!
- 2023 Showcase
