Adaptation in a Time of Change
Provost’s Faculty Development Team – AY 2020/21
The Faculty Accelerator Partnerships are managed by the Provost’s Faculty Development Team, three facilitators appointed to support faculty needs in the areas of teaching, research, and service.
Interested in becoming a partner?
Contact any member of the Provost’s Team and they’ll work with you to coordinate and collaborate on any faculty initiative that is already underway or still in development.
Associate Director of Teaching & Learning, eCampus
Adjunct Faculty, UAF Art Department
Madara Mason has been teaching since 1999, and engaged in faculty development at UAF since 2011, supporting innovative teaching practices and broad campus collaboration. Along with the Accelerator, she leads the eCampus Instructional Design Team in managing initiatives such as CITE Fellows, the UAF edX Consortium partnership, AI-assisted assessment, and many other innovations in teaching and technology.
Program Director, Applied Management Program
Instructor, UAF School of Management
Amanda White teaches professional development and management classes in the School of Management and is the Program Director for the Applied Management program. She has pursued a path helping people make active, authentic, career choices and brings energy, innovation, and care to the classroom. Amanda is an active member of Faculty Senate and numerous strategic campus initiatives.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Water and Environmental Research Center
Dr. Aggarwal is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award (2018) for his work on biofilms in drinking water. He has also worked on the environmental fate of oil-spill response chemicals in the Arctic and associated operational issues. Some of his research has also considered measurement and modeling of ambient/indoor air quality, specifically fine and ultrafine particulate matter.
Institutional Partners
The success of the Faculty Accelerator hinges on its many constituents across the university working together. Here are some of our founding partners, each of whom is helping to strengthen faculty life at UAF.
Sarah Stanley
Faculty Fellow for Accreditation & Assessment
Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
Director of University Writing, General Education
Sarah Stanley is a beaver believer! How do beavers engineer healthy ecosystems and increase wetlands? How can we collaborate and create more ecological approaches to learning at UAF? She is experimental and bold in working with others to increase access to quality higher education. She facilitates Writing 111X alongside beginning university-level writing teachers every semester, in prison and google classrooms.
Peter Webeley
Partner for Faculty Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Research Associate Professor
Associate Director of Research – ACUASI
Deputy Director – OIPC, CASR
Peter Webley studies remote sensing of natural hazards, dispersion modeling of aerosols, satellite detection methodologies, the application of unmanned aircraft systems for geoscience research and operational support, scenario planning for natural hazard assessment and risk mitigation, 3-D visualization of aerosol modeling, business development, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship.
Laura Conner
Chair, Faculty Development & Improvement Committee
Associate Research Professor of Science Education, GI
Chair of Science Teaching and Outreach Graduate Certificate Program
Laura Conner oversees a number of externally funded projects and initiatives around STEM and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning. Her research broadly addresses how people come to identify with science, as well as the value of real objects and experiences in learning. Conner teaches graduate level courses in science teaching and outreach and is active in University- level service.
Rich Collins
Partner for Grad Student Mentoring & Success
Director, UAF Graduate School
Professor, GI Atmospheric Science
Kendell Newman Sadiik
Partner for Online Pedagogies & Programs
Faculty Development Manager, eCampus
Learning Inside Out Network
Kendell Newman Sadiik has over ten years of experience in higher education research, teaching, and instructional design. With UAF eCampus, she facilitates programming for faculty in online learning and supports multiple initiatives focused on care-based pedagogies. She teaches for the School of Education and as a founding member of UAF’s Learning Inside Out Network (LION).