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    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 Spring Retreat - April 25-26, 2025

    Location: Oakwood Resort, Syracuse, Indiana

    2024 Alliance Retreat RSVP

    ***RSVP survey link will be active on Monday, January 13, 2025.***

    2024 The Alliance Teaching Showcase: Friday, November 8, 2024

    Location: International Ballroom, Walb Union [Purdue Fort Wayne]

    2024 Alliance Showcase Agenda [PDF]

    2024 Alliance Showcase Program [PDF]

    Previous Events

    • 2023 Showcase
      Alliance Showcase - Thursday, November 2, 2023 | 4:30 to 7:30 @ Alumni Center

      2023 Alliance Teaching Showcase Program [PDF]

      2023 Alliance Teaching Showcase Booklet [PDF]

    • 2022 Showcase
      Alliance 2022 Teaching Showcase | November 3rd 4:30 - 7:30 @ Alumni Center

      2022 Alliance Teaching Showcase Program[PDF]

    • 2021 Showcase
      Alliance 2021 Teaching Showcase | October 28th 4:30 - 7:30 @ International Ballroom

      2021 Alliance Teaching Showcase Agenda[PDF]

      2021 Alliance Teaching Showcase Program[PDF]

    • 2019 Showcase

      2019 Alliance Teaching Showcase Program [PDF]

    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]

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    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.

    Assessment Team

    TBD

    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
    • 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

    Assessment Team

    • Farah Combs
    • Adam Dircksen
    • Becca Essig
    • Deb Huffman (Team Captain)
    • Kim O'Connor
    • Sarah Paris

    BOATE (Team Captains)

    • Beth Christian (Outreach)
    • 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)

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