45th Annual Faculty College 2025:
(Re)Engaging with SoTL
THE OSTHOFF RESORT AT ELKHART LAKE, WI
MAY 27-30, 2025
(Re)Orienting SoTL: Rooting Inquiries in Your Identities, Purposes, Artifacts, and Communities
Facilitators Nancy Chick & Peter Felten
 Dr. Nancy Chick |
 Dr. Peter Felten |
In this workshop based on our forthcoming book The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (co-authored with Katarina Mårtensson), we’ll mark OPID’s 25th anniversary of SoTL in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars by re-orienting how SoTL is both understood and undertaken. We see SoTL as more than one thing: it’s a practice that improves teaching and learning in context. It’s also a field that extends how we in higher education build knowledge. It’s a community that offers rich relationships for those who seek them. And it’s a form of scholarship with socially conscious and humane roots that call on us to make a difference in the education of students, in the careers of academics, and in the world.
Rather than a typical SoTL project development exercise that marches stepwise like a recipe, this workshop will revolve around inflection points in SoTL practice. Specifically, we will invite you to think deeply and in new ways about your own professional and personal identities, the meaningfulness or significance of your SoTL inquiry, the artifacts that illuminate your work, and the people who are part of your SoTL community. This thinking will inspire hands-on work of (re)conceptualizing your own SoTL work, including the ways that SoTL informs your professional life in and beyond your institution.
Also, rather than squeezing in too much content or rushing participants through a few perfunctory exercises under the expectation that they’ll do the real work on their own time, this workshop aligns with the “institute | retreat” nature of OPID’s Faculty College. We’ll treat the two full mornings and the beautiful location as an opportunity for slowness—a deliberate, reflective approach that values presence, depth, and connection. In this way, the substance and pacing of this workshop honor the complexities of teaching, learning, and all aspects of your work, inviting you to think not just about what you’re doing, but also why it matters.
Post-Workshop Reflective Questions
Following morning workshops with Nancy and Peter, answer the following questions in your reflective journal. Be prepared to share your thoughts in the late-afternoon break-out discussion groups. You will be randomly assigned to a small group with a facilitator and colleagues from other universities (same group on both days).
Day 1 – Wednesday
> What new, surprising, challenging, or inspiring things (ideas, practices, questions, etc.) emerged from today’s workshop for you?
> What is SoTL’s place in your professional life? What could it be?
Day 2 – Thursday
> What new, surprising, challenging, or inspiring things (ideas, practices, questions, etc.) emerged from today’s workshop for you?
> What is SoTL’s place in your institution – and in your institutional life? What could it be?
Programmatic inquiries may be directed to:
Fay Akindes, Director of Systemwide Professional and Instructional Development, UW System, fay.akindes@wisconsin.edu
For technical support contact:
Erin McGroarty, Office of Academic Affairs, UW System, erin.mcgroarty@wisconsin.edu
University Teams
Avonlea Hanson- Associate Director CETL, Lead
Jennifer Ervin
Sheril Gilberstadt
Gail Hanson Brenner
Joanne Jahnke-Wegner - WTFS
David Jones
Boris Krichevsky
Mary Beth Leibham - OPID Advisory Council Member
Kelly Murray
Amber Wilson -WTFS
Kris Vespia- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Tanim Ahsan - WTFS
Sayeda Farzana Aktar
Shara Cherniak
Renee Ettinger
Mary Gichobi - OPID Advisory Council Member
Alison Jane Martingano - WTFS
Kris Purzycki
Pamela Rivers
Florence Uruakpa
Rojoba Yasmin
Kristin Koepke- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Cord Brundage
Eliza Carlson
Anita Davelos
Lisa Keuse - WTFS
Gicheol Kim
Valerie Krage - OPID Advisory Council Member
Weixu Lu
Elizabeth Peacock - WTFS
Steni Sackiriyas
Megan Schmid- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Eduardo Arvelo
Setareh Behroozi
Patrick Fessenbecker
McLean Gunderson
Karen Hershberger-Braker
Julie Hunt Johnson
Jessica Rippe
Natasha Jankowski- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Michael Aschenbrenner
Raquel Farmer-Hinton
Benajmin Gautsch
Sarah Luelloff
Beth Silverstein
Josh Garrison
Jeremiah Bohr
Erika Janssen
Amy Knepple Carney
Jessica Lucas
Karrie Rukamp - WTFS
Kimberly Oamek
Emmet Sandberg
Tracy Slagter
Juyeon Son - OPID Advisory Council Member
Amber Handy - Lead, Director for CETL, OPID Advisory Council Member
Kenny French - OPID Advisory Council Member
Erin Graham - WTFS
Garrison Komaniecki
Xue Ning
Ignacio Rivero Covelo
Kamil Samara
Leslie Vaglica
Courtney Wirtz - WTFS
Raymond Pugh- Lead, OPID Advisory Council Member
Sameer Ahmed
Erin Anderson
Xinghui Chen
Rich Crow
Venkata Avinash Paruchuri - WTFS
Thomas Pitcher - WTFS
Mohammad Rahman
Mehdi Roopaei
Joseph Wu
Paulo Yu
Cyndi Kernahan- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Katherine Bangert
Mark Brenden
Charlie Corcoran
Melissa Hayslip
Greg Kerkvliet - OPID Advisory Council Member
Carlos Rojas
Jennifer Weinert-Nelson
Bob Zhiwei Zeng
Erin Speetzen- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council Member, Lead
James Berry - OPID Advisory Council Member
Karin Bodensteiner - WTFS
Dave Dettman - WTFS
Olivia Gerrish
Amanda Jonsson
Grant Kopitzke
Katja Marquart
Fresia McKee - WTFS
Ryan O'Leary
Chris Yahnke
Sylvia Tiala- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Cortney Benjamin
Katherine (Katie) Benson
Devin Berg
Eric Brey
Emma Green - WTFS
Katherine (Katie) Lupton
Pranabendu Mitra - WTFS
Mary Paz Alvarez Valverde
Jonathon (Jonny) Wheeler
Jamie White-Farnham - Lead, Interim Academic Program Director
Megan Anderson - WTFS
Deborah Augsburger
Meg Chrusciel
Allison French
Emilee Howland
Ephraim Nikoi
Brittnie Peck - WTFS
Jennifer Sharp
Stephanie Warden
Alison Wielgus
Sue Wildermuth- Center Director, OPID Advisory Council, Lead
Ken Brosky- OPID Advisory Council Faculty Member
Steven Girard
Nick Hwang
Megan Matthews
Heather Niemier
Molly Patterson
Bakhtear Talukdar
Dwight Watson
Lauren Zepp
UW-Eau Claire
Joanne Jahnke-Wegner
Amber Wilson
UW-Green Bay
Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan
Alison Jane Martingano
UW-La Crosse
Lisa Kruse
Elizabeth Peacock
UW-Oshkosh
Karrie Rukamp
UW-Parkside
Courtney Writz
Erin Graham
UW-Platteville
Venkata Avinash Paruchuri
Thomas Pitcher
UW-River Falls
Katherine Bangert
Bob Zhiwei Zeng
UW-Stevens Point
Karin Bodensteiner
Freesia McKee
Dave Dettman
UW-Stout
Emma Green
Pranabendu Mitra
UW-Superior
Megan Anderson
Brittnie Peck
UW-Whitewater
Steve Girard
Lauren Zepp