Consortium for Learning and Scholarship Leadership

Robert Bringle
Executive Director, Center of Service and Learning

In our CSL work we have explored models for faculty development, reflection, building community partnerships, and assessment strategies for service learning and civic engagement (e.g., institutional assessment of civic engagement, co-curricular service programs, community service scholarship programs, tutoring programs in the community). The work of the Center for Service and Learning has contributed to numerous national recognitions for the campus, including the Presidential Award for Community Service, being identified as a College With A Conscience, and being classsified by Carnegie for Community Engagement.

I received a B.A. (1969) from Hanover College in Psychology and Mathematics and a M.S. (1972) and Ph.D. (1974) from University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Social Psychology. My social psychological research was focused on close relationships and jealousy. The University of the Free State, South Africa, conferred an honorary doctorate in 2004 for scholarly work on civic engagement and service learning. When not on campus, my wife and I enjoy swimming, sailing, canoeing, and ballroom dancing.

Phone: 317.278.3499 or 317.274.6753 | Email: rbringle@iupui.edu | Campus Address: UC 3114 or LD 100A

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Megan Palmer
Interim Executive Director, Center of Teaching and Learning

Megan Palmer is Executive Director of The Center for Teaching and Learning at IUPUI. In addition to working with the CTL staff on efforts to enhance teaching and learning on campus, Megan works on several organizational development projects. Specifically, Megan coordinates new faculty orientation, learning environments, Gateway initiatives and other institutional culture issues that impact the experience of faculty. Before becoming the director of the CTL Megan served first as an Instructional Design Consultant and then as Director of Administrative and Organizational Development within the OPD. Megan also holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program. The courses she has taught recently include Strategies for Educational Inquiry, Higher Education Administration, Issues and Problems in Student Affairs Administration, and Special Mission Colleges and Universities.

Prior to working at IUPUI, Megan served in a variety of administrative positions at several institutions of higher education including the University of Kansas, Stephens College and Syracuse University. She holds a bachelors of arts from University of St. Thomas (MN), masters in student affairs in higher education from Colorado State University, and doctor of philosophy from Indiana University. In her spare time Megan enjoys traveling, cooking, watching sports, good wine, and working out during lunch with OPD colleagues at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport.

Phone: 317.274.1300 | Email: mmpalmer@iupui.edu | Campus Address: UL 1125

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Kathryn Wilson
Executive Director, Center for Research and Learning

Kathryn is the founder and Director of the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning. The Center was fully implemented in 2004 to promote and support all varieties of research and scholarship, with special attention to independent undergraduate student research. The Center brings together a number of other campus programs that support undergraduate research including some that serve primarily minority and first generation low-income students. Kathryn is the Principle Investigator and Director for the IUPUI Ronald E. McNair Program that serves 22 scholars each summer and 16-20 during the academic year. Kathryn led the design and implementation of a formal Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in the IUPUI School of Science and later led the team that translated this program to the campus level. The IUPUI program, which she directs, is housed in the Center and is available to all disciplines. In 2004 IUPUI was host to the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), which she planned and coordinated for the campus. NCUR2004 brought 2400 undergraduate researchers and their faculty mentors to IUPUI. She serves on the NCUR Board and is a founding member of a new national organization to support directors of centers of undergraduate research (NDURE, the National Organization for the Directors of Undergraduate Research Experiences) and has been a reviewer for the past three years for the Lancy Grants, which support multidisciplinary undergraduate research programs to encourage program growth at mostly small liberal arts colleges. Her current research program seeks to improve our understanding of how students learn through undergraduate research and to increase our knowledge about how faculty mentors affect learning through their mentoring of undergraduate research.

Kathryn is a faculty member in the Department of Biology. She received her baccalaureate degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and, in 1976 received her Ph.D. in Plant Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. She was instrumental in leading a major undergraduate curriculum reform for the Schools of Liberal Arts and Science and the implementation of a new general education curriculum and formulating the IUPUI Principles of Undergraduate Learning. Prior to her role as Director of the Center Kathryn served for twelve years as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the IUPUI School of Science and had primary responsibility for the promotion of scholarly research and support of activities that involved graduate programs. She also supervised all grants and contracts in the School of Science and had additional responsibilities for the school’s technology planning and development.

Phone: 317.278.1028 | Email: kjwilson@iupui.edu | Campus Address: UL 1140