Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence Committees

The Center of Empowering Teaching Excellence sponsors programming including the annual ETE Conference, Seminar Series, Foundations of USU Teaching, eLearnX, Learning Circles, the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, and the ETE Professional Development Pathway program. These events and programs are organized and supported by committees of faculty, staff, and student representatives who give their insights, ideas, and support to provide needed programming. Committee participation is done through request.

Faculty Committee

The ETE Faculty Committee was created to facilitate the primary goal of the Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE), which is to “elevate and promote a culture of teaching excellence” at Utah State University. The ETE Faculty Committee are trusted members of the ETE team, chosen to serve on the committee to help improve the instructor development program at USU continuously. The ETE Faculty Committee is a volunteer committee that assists ETE in running its instructor development programming. While ETE conducts the daily responsibilities of the department, the ETE Faculty Committee is designed to give feedback, make suggestions, and help implement the larger projects that ETE takes on.

Jefferson Sheen, Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social Work

*Faculty Committee Chair

Jason Olsen, Associate Professor & JETE Editor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English
*Subcommittee Chair: Publications

Missy Kofoed, Lecturer
College of Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
*Subcomittees: ETE Conference Chair

Sidi Becar Meyara, Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication Studies and Philosophy
*Subcomittees: ELCSS Committee

Sunshine Brosi, Associate Professor
Quinney College of Natural Resources, Wildland Resources Department
*Subcomittees: ETE10, cel Liaison

Sarah Tulane, Clinical Assistant Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Human Development and Family Studies
*Subcomittee Chair: ETE10 and SoTL

Amanda Deliman, Assistant Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, School of Teacher Education and Leadership
*Subcomittee Chair: SoTL

Nate Trauntvein, Associate Professor
Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Kinesiology and Health Science
*Subcomittee Chair: Explore

Subcommittees

ETE Subcommittees exist to help distribute the responsibilities of ETE into manageable and sensible segments. ETE has five subcommittees whose responsibilities range from planning events to creating new programming to promoting publications. The composition of each subcommittee varies as subcommittees include more than just ETE Faculty Committee members; however, the Chair of each ETE subcommittee must be a member of the ETE Faculty Committee. The subcommittees are:

• Explore College Teaching
• ETE Conference/Foundations
• eLearnX/Learning Circles/Springboard Series/Sparkshops (ELCSS)
• ETE Professional Development Program
• Publications

Executive Committee

The ETE Executive Committee serves as an advisory board supporting and promoting the mission of ETE and ensuring ETE continues to reflect the Provost’s Office academic values and the culture of teaching excellence across the USU-system.

Ambassadors

The ETE Ambassadors are former ETE Faculty Committee members who have served their period rotation and have pulled back from leading ETE activities. The role of ETE Ambassadors is to share information about ETE and encourage instructors in their department, college, and service activities to participate in professional development.