Faculty Teaching Mentors
The Faculty Teaching Mentors are a team of experienced and knowledgeable faculty (tenure track, instructional, or clinical) who are available to provide advice, recommendations and mentoring to their colleagues on teaching.
This new program piloted during the 2024-2025 academic year, aims to build a vibrant teaching community at NIU and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to our university’s teaching excellence while gaining professional recognition and development.
Updates for 2025-2026
We’re taking what we’ve learned from the first year of the Faculty Teaching Mentors program and working closely with the Office of the Provost to make updates for the coming academic year. Our goal is to build on the successes of year one while refining the program to better support NIU faculty in their teaching. Stay tuned for details later in fall 2025.
Meet the Teaching Mentors (2024-2025)
These faculty were available as teaching mentors for the 2024-2025 academic year. Learn more about their approach to teaching.
E. Taylor Atkins
Distinguished Teaching Professor
History
Stephanie Baker
Associate Professor
Special and Early Education
Sinclair Bell
Presidential Teaching Professor
Art and Design
Brian Bender
Instructor
Operations Management and Information Systems
Anne Britt
Board of Trustees Professor
Department of Psychology
Brianno Coller
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Purushothaman Damodaran
Presidential Teaching Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Daryl Dugas
Associate Professor
Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
Mylan Engel Jr.
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Philosophy
Kimberly Gatz
Instructor
Communication
Taylor Hartman
Instructor
World Languages and Cultures
Jodi Lampi
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Laurence Lurio
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Physics
Jamie Mayer
Associate Professor
Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Shanthi Muthuswamy
Presidential Teaching Professor
Engineering Technology
Kevin Palencia Infante
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Nick Pohlman
Presidential Teaching Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Jeanette Rossetti
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Nursing
Pallavi Singh
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Donna Werderich
Presidential Teaching Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
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- Faculty Teaching Mentors provide valuable wisdom to their peers | NIU Today, October 3, 2024