Center Events: Speaker Series
Pat Hutchings (Carnegie Foundation)
Decmeber 05, 2001
Pat
Hutchings is vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, working closely with a wide range of programs and research
initiatives, including the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning. Hutchings joined the Foundation in 1998 after serving as a
senior staff member at the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE).
She has written widely on the investigation and documentation of teaching
and learning, the peer collaboration and review of teaching, and the
scholarship of teaching and learning. Recent publications, both drawing from
Carnegie's work, include Ethics of Inquiry: Issues in the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning (2002) and Opening Lines: Approaches to the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2000). Her most recent book, The
Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005), was
co-authored with Mary Huber. She holds a doctorate in English from the
University of Iowa and was chair of the English department at Alverno
College from 1978-1987.
