Center for Faculty Development
ACUE Faculty Development Institute at Southern Miss
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The ACUE experience on our campus has been transformative institutionally. Through the ACUE Faculty Development Institute participants support one anothers’ teaching and over all success as faculty members, resulting in new community connections across the university as well as powerful impacts in the classroom.
Dr. Amy Chasteen, past Executive Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at Southern Miss
The ACUE Faculty Development Institute at Southern Miss is an intensive professional development program offered to enhance teaching practices. The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) was founded by leaders in higher education to advance instruction, support college educators, and promote student success. ACUE helps colleges and universities achieve their goals for students through innovative faculty development partnerships and a research-based Course in Effective Teaching Practices.
The ACUE Faculty Development Institute at Southern Miss includes four programs:
- Effective Teaching Practices (ETP)—Three-semester program focused on evidence-based teaching practices in face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.
- Effective Online Teaching Practices (EOTP)—Three-semester program focused on evidence-based teaching practices and course design in online courses.
- Advanced Certificate in Effective College Instruction—Following the initial earning of the Certificate in Effective College Instruction, faculty can earn the advanced certificate by completing two more semesters in the second program.
ACUE Faculty fellows invest time (1) individually working through online interactive modules, (2) exploring at least one technique in a class during the week, and (3) joining together each week as a group for a facilitated discussion on that week's topic. The 10-week program allows for individual and collective reflection through ACUE modules and weekly facilitated meetings. At the end of every course/microcredential, faculty fellows receive an ACUE/USM Certificate from the Center for Faculty Development as well as badges from ACUE, indicating their successful completion of that stage of training.
Upon the successful completion of Effective Teaching Practices, Effective Online Teaching
Practices, or the Advanced Certificate, faculty fellows earn the Certificate in Effective College Instruction, endorsed by the American Council on Education (ACE), and are conferred the USM designation of ACUE Distinguished Teaching Scholar.
ACUE Courses now accepting applications:
Academic Year 2025-2026: Effective Teaching Practices Series
The deadline for applications is May 30, 2025.
Summer 2025: Designing Learner-Centered Courses, June 2-July 18, 2025
The deadline for applications is April 18, 2025.
ACUE Faculty Fellows
| Michelle Brazeal | School of Social Work |
| Kendrick Buford | Center for STEM Education |
| Laura Clark Hunt | School of Library and Information Science |
| Chris Croft | School of Marketing |
| Terry Cullum | School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering |
| Emily Holmes | Office of Leadership and Student Involvement |
| Rajamohan Kalluru | School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Aleise McGowan | School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering |
| Jeremy Scott | School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Alexis Stoner | School of Marketing |
| Elizabeth Tinnon | School of Professional Nursing Practice |
| Sarah Wright | School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Khadiza Akter | School of Psychology |
| Debra Carter | School of Education |
| Riley Galloway | School of Kinesiology and Nutrition |
| Danny Guillory | School of Education |
| Ashley Kazery | School of Education |
| Summer Pannell | School of Education |
| Kaeli Gretter | School of Library and Information Science |
| Andrew Herridge | School of Education |
| Andrew Huebert | School of Psychology |
| Rachel Lahasky | School of Social Work |
| Tiffany Ridgeway | School of Education |
| Shiza Shahid | School of Psychology |
| Rhonda Smith | School of Social Work |
| Name: | School/Division/Unit: |
| Kevin Buckley | Marketing |
| Jacob Chapman | Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Erich Connell | Construction and Design |
| Melody Davisson | Social Work |
| Allison Downing | Center for STEM Education |
| Ian Dunkle | Humanities |
| Alison Fridley | Marketing |
| Gretchen Goode | Education |
| Andrew Gutkowski | Interdisciplinary Studies & Professional Development |
| Calvin Martin | Ocean Science and Engineering |
| Stephanie McCoy | Kinesiology and Nutrituion |
| Nathan Mullins | Performing and Visual Arts |
| Jacob Namias | Psychology |
| Gero Nootz | Ocean Science and Engineering |
| Catherine Patteson Poehling | Social Work |
| Chelsea Pederson | Ocean Science and Engineering |
| Kaity Prieto | Education |
| Sabrina Reed | Marketing |
| Courtney Robinson | |
| Diana Smith | Social Work |
| Zach Taylor | Education |
| Leonard Troughton | Education |
| Autumn Webb | Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Sunny Wells | Education |
| Dannetta Winters | Academic Affairs - Undergraduate Scholarships |
| Sharon Young | Social Science and Global Studies |
| Mary Collins | Leadership and Advance Nursing Practice |
| Rachel Prather | Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Jennifer Steele | Library and Information Science |
| Ashley Allen | Music |
| Douglas Bristol | Coastal Resilience |
| Ian Cicco | Music |
| Jim Evans | Marketing |
| Megan Fortenberry | Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Dean Franks | Education |
| Emily Holmes | Leadership and Student Involvement |
| Mercy Jaiyeola | Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering |
| Joseph Jones | Music |
| Jameela Lares | Humanities |
| Aleise McGowan | Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering |
| Joseph Nefcy Cheatle | Humanities |
| Cathy Newman | Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences |
| Kayla Stan | Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences |
| Cynthia Baertich | Social Science and Global Studies |
| K. Chimene Gecewicz | Social Science and Global Studies |
| Andrew Herridge | Education |
| Stephanie McCoy | Kinesiology and Nutrituion |
| Chad Miller | Finance |
| Carsten Schmidtke | Leadership |
| Nancy Speed | Kinesiology and Nutrition |
| Kevin Stott | Child and Family Sciences |
| Bridgette L. Davis | Education |
| Xuyang He | Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security |
| Ann Marie Kinnell | Interdisciplinary Studies & Professional Development |
| Michael Madson | Psychology |
| Jennifer O'Sullivan | Finance |
| Stephanie Parks | Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice |
| Jae-Hwa Shin | Communication |
| Bryan Spuhler | Child and Family Sciences |
| Karl J. Wallace | Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Reginald Wilson | Accounting |
| Fan Zhang | Construction and Design |
| Brandon Allen | Marketing |
| Jon Bottema | Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Security |
| Brigitte Burgess | Marketing |
| Kemal Cambazoglu | Ocean Science and Engineering |
| Susan Katherine Clark | Child and Family Sciences |
| Allison Formanack | Social Science and Global Studies |
| Dana Hart | Accountancy |
| John Mark Lawler | Performing and Visual Arts |
| Marcus Michels | Performing and Visual Arts |
| Jay Morris | Performing and Visual Arts |
| Susan Rayner | Professional Nursing Practice |
| Michelle Toepfer | Professional Nursing Practice |
| Kelly Vera | Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences |
| Lakenya Forthner | Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice |
| Clinton Martin | Construction and Design |
| Xinyu Mills | Library and Information Science |
| Jason Wallace | Education |
| Cindy Walls | Construction and Design |
| Loretta Burns | Professional Nursing Practice |
| Laura Clark Hunt | Library and Information Science |
| Terry Cullum | Computer Science and Computer Engineering |
| Allan Eickelmann | Interdisciplinary Studies and Professional Development |
| Charan Gudia | Computer Science and Computer Engineering |
| Kristina Harrison | Marketing |
| Anand Hiroji | Ocean Science and Engineering |
| Hyunmin Kim | Health Professions |
| Shana Oates | Education |
| Jamie Parker | Finance |
| Rachel Prather | Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| Michong Rayborn | Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice |
| Stephanie Smith | Psychology |
| Jennifer Steele | Library and Information Science |
| Alexis Stoner | Marketing |
| Kruti Surti | Psychology |
| Joris van der Ham | Ocean Science and Engineering |
| Zhaoxian Zhou | Computer Science and Computer Engineering |
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