Center for Teaching and Learning
The Center for Teaching and Learning in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences helps support all instructors in developing innovative and responsive teaching practices to foster student growth and success. Through programs such as annual Teaching Fellows, peer observation training, and interactive workshops, the center is building a collaborative community to promote a culture of teaching throughout the college.
Center staff
The center is led by Founding Director Bree Holtz, Interim Director Perry Parks, and student assistant Raven Lapaix.
Faculty
Bree Holtz
Associate ProfessorDepartment
Advertising + Public RelationsDr. Holtz's research explores the adoption, perceptions, and outcomes of telemedicine, mobile phone health apps (mhealth), consumer grade sensors (i.e., Fitbit, Apple Watch, etc.), electronic medical records, AI, and social media for health topics.
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Perry Parks
Assistant ProfessorDepartment
JournalismAdvisory Board
The advisory board considerers and proposes initiatives; reviews and prioritizes initiatives; evaluates and expands suggested metrics; helps find external funding opportunities; provide feedback on initiative implementation; explores unit- and college-based incentives. The advisory board includes Ross Chowles (Advertising and Public Relations), Allison Eden (Communication), Jeff Searl (Communicative Sciences and Disorders), Ryan Thompson (Media and Information), Allison Shaw (advising), and Enrique Núñez-Mussa (Ph.D. student, Journalism).
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Ross Chowles
Academic Specialist/Professor of PracticeDepartment
Advertising + Public RelationsRoss Chowles attended the Johannesburg high school for art, ballet and music. His artistic skills landed him a job as a junior art director in advertising in 1980. Since then, Chowles has spent his time creating advertising, and helping others create advertising, that impacts consumers.
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Allison Eden
Associate ProfessorDepartment
CommunicationDr. Allison Eden (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication.
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Jeff Searl
ProfessorDepartment
Communicative Sciences & DisordersJeff Searl comes to the MSU Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders with a combination of clinical experience and research that can prepare students for the practice of speech and language pathology as well as research in clinical populations.
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Ryan Thompson
InstructorDepartment
Media & InformationContact
PhD Student
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