University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Center for Teaching & Learning Announces 2023-24 Tide Ambassadors Faculty Fellows
The Center for Teaching & Learning has announced the selection of the 2023-24 TIDE (Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity and Equity) Ambassadors Faculty Fellows. This highly competitive program provides 10 faculty members with the opportunity to explore how they can enhance students’ learning and academic success across cultural, social and learning differences by adopting a strength-based, inclusive and equitable approach to teaching and learning grounded in the value of diversity.
Muge Capan, assistant professor, mechanical and industrial engineering, College of Engineering
Florian Hafner, lecturer, speech, language, and hearing sciences, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Siobhan Mei, lecturer, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Rosa Moscarella, senior lecturer, biology, College of Natural Sciences
Jing Qian, associate professor, biostatistics and epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Julia Ronconi, clinical assistant professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Gwyneth Rost, senior lecturer, speech, language and hearing sciences, School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Sravan Surampudi, senior lecturer, chemistry, College of Natural Sciences
Cheryl Swanier, senior lecturer II, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Erika Zekos, senior lecturer, architecture, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
Selected from a competitive field of applicants, these 10 faculty members represent a wide range of disciplines and interests in advancing equity and inclusiveness on the UMass Amherst campus. As TIDE Ambassadors, they support the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts by sharing what they learn through the fellowship in their programs, departments or colleges and by supporting the CTL’s DEI programming.
Throughout the fellowship year, these faculty fellows will have the opportunity to learn new teaching strategies, new frameworks for course designs and collaborate with colleagues from diverse disciplines.