Alumna receives Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award
Hillary Steiner (MA ’00, PhD ’03), associate professor of educational psychology in the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies at Kennesaw State University, recently received the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) award from the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents.
Selected from nominations submitted annually by the presidents of the University System, the award honors faculty members who are committed to student-focused research on effective teaching.
I find tremendous value in studying my own teaching through empirical inquiry and helping other faculty learn how to do the same," said Steiner, who also serves as KSU’s associate director of learning communities. “My background in educational psychology is particularly appropriate for the social science framework often used in interdisciplinary SoTL.