IUPUC faculty member Katherine Wills, Ph.D., was recently selected for membership in the Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Class of 2010.
Wills becomes only the fourth IUPUC faculty member selected for membership. The previous IUPUC FACET members are Patrick Rooney (1992), Jay Howard (1997), and Judith Spector (2005).
FACET members must compile an extensive teaching portfolio which demonstrates and documents teaching and learning success which is subjected to a two-level peer review process. Only 21 faculty members from throughout the Indiana University system were honored with FACET membership this year.
“Kathy’s success is all the more remarkable because it is unusual for a candidate to be selected for FACET the first year they are nominated,” said Jay Howard, head of the IUPUC Division of Liberal Arts. “Kathy is an exceptional teacher who excels at managing a seminar discussion in ways that make students co-creators of knowledge and understanding. Not only is Dr. Wills very intentional and reflective in her own teaching, she also works with future writing teachers to help them begin to reflect on their own strengths and to consider the range of pedagogical practices they can chose to help their future students learn to write more effectively.”
Wills has served as a manuscript reviewer for the journal “Composition Studies,” as a liaison for the Association for Business Communication to the Modern Language Association, and served as a discussant at multiple national meetings including the Modern Language Association, the Conference of College Composition and Communication, and the Computers and Writing Conference.
She has sought to share her expertise through her research in many conference presentations, publications, and her co-edited, award winning book, “Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies.”
Wills has led the development of the e-portfolio at IUPUC, was one of the first IUPUC faculty members to integrate service learning into her courses, and was one of the first to develop a high quality, learning focused online course at IUPUC.
FACET is a community of faculty dedicated to and recognized for excellence in teaching and learning. FACET advocates pedagogical innovation, inspires growth and reflection, cultivates the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and fosters personal renewal in the commitment to student learning.
Wills is an assistant professor of English for the IUPUC Division of Liberal Arts.