Fearless Faculty™
Fearless Faculty intentionally create psychologically safe classroom environments that enable student academic performance by modelling resiliency and vulnerability, providing structure and clarity in course objectives to the students while building mutual trust and respect with the students, demonstrate compassion, empathy, and humility toward the students.
The Fearless Classroom strategies directly affect our student's Social Emotional Learning. Coming back to school and campus, students are having a difficult time adapting and adjusting to the expectations being placed on them. Using FC strategies support the students social emotional learning and well-being by providing students with authentic, trusting, and collaborative relationships that still holds students accountable without reducing the rigor. I would also go as far as discussing how research shows that SEL has a positive impact on several outcomes, not just academic performance but healthy relationships and mental health and wellness. (Marybeth Murray, Early Childhood Studies)
Thank you for being our 'fearless' leaders this past year. I am grateful for all I have gleaned from the workshops as I feel changes to my classes have been positive. I wanted to share that next fall I am committing two of my classes to an ‘un-grading' system. This is based on the CAFE workshops, trainings and texts. I am very excited (and scared) as I believe this is directly related to creating a fearless classroom. I see great benefits for creating a class of equity and psychological safety as well as student learning centered. (Jeanne Marshall, Geography/Anthropology)
During the pandemic I created more balance in my teaching approach building a community out of a classroom, working with students as a class, in teams, and individually. I noticed more engagement, better attendance, and increased performance. I was awarded Teacher of the Year in my department. (Ron Heimler, Apparel Merchandising and Management)
I was stunned when I calculated the final grades - almost everyone in my class got an A or an A-. All students regardless of grade worked harder and, I think, learned better. Their final projects are much better than last year in the same class. I actually made some of them revise their first submissions.. Even though it was more work for me and the students, I think the opportunity to recover paid off. Their Discussion Board posts were more insightful measuring in 100 - 300 words by the end fo the semester rather than a single sentence or two. Even their responses to the takeaways discussion in Week 15 were rewarding to me reflecting they learned something important that they are taking away beyond the classroom. (Olga Griswold, Linguistics and TESOL, English and Modern Languages
I really appreciate this project, it has helped enhance my work as an instructor.
Thank you and your team for the consistent dedication to the Fearless process in education. This program has brought me to a place where I feel my teaching philosophy and what is happening in the classroom have come together. Thank you for stretching me in this direction.
I have learned a lot about Fearless Classroom and absolutely think all faculty should take this session. It was insightful and amazing.
Fearless Faculty Participants 2020-2024
Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture
Marguerite Mulhall MBA
Juan Canedo DBA
Jiangning Che PhD
Chitra Dabas PhD
Nichole Dwyer MBA
Ronald Heimler EdD
Alejandra Parise BS
Helen Trejo PhD
Claire Whang PhD
Elke Tetschner BS
Eeman At- Taras PhD
Hyunchul Han PhD
Elizabeth Schilling DVM A
Gabriel Davido Pardo PhD
Xu Yang PhD
Kathleen Blakistone MS
Kellene Isom PhD
Bonny Burns-Whitmore PhD
Nichole Hammack MBA
Joanne Sohn DVM
Karoline Harrison MS
Priti Saxena PhD
Feng Xie PhD
Andrea Watson MS
Md Arif Igbal PhD
Cindy Cordoba Arroyo PhD
Su Jeong Hwang Shin PhD
Deborah Johnson BS
Seoha Min PhD
Saemee Lyu PhD
Wajeeha Young DrPH
Ron Heimler EdD
Peter Kilduff PhD
College of Education and Integrative Studies
Hyong Soo Kim PhD
Gonzalo Avila EdD
Miachelle Andrade PhD
Denise Kennedy PhD
Sally Guyon EdD
Eden Haywood Bird PhD
Marybeth Murray EdD
Giselle Navarro Cruz PhD
Jocelyn Tucker MA
Hyeryung Hwang PhD
Kheng Ly-Hoang EdD
Cindy Li MS
Shariya Dinali Dhammapala MA
Lori Johnson-Rucker MA
Michael Watter EdD
Lisa Wong MS
Betty Alford Phd
Cynthia Geary Phd
Charlene Guerra EdD
Emily Kiresich PhD
JoNeen Ohlacker EdD
Jeff Passe Phd
Holley Reynolds EdD
Sara Juarez Phd
Diana Solis
Dennis Quinn
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Dina Papschristou MS
Gabriel Granco PhD
Jeannie Marshall MA
Nikita Prajapati MA
Nielen Chaturvedi PhD
Elie Menounou PhD
Paula Weston Solano MFA
Sarah Krainin MFA
Whitney Mannies PhD
Vanessa Delgado PhD
Ivana Cvetkovic PhD
Kylie Mayhew BA
Marry Jones MS
Souzan Maleki Thoresen MS
Asal Alimirzai MA
Rachel Baumsteiger PhD
Sandra Emerson PhD
Jill Hargis PhD JD
Kelly Huh PhD
Stephen James PhD
Harold Kast MFA
Cailin Kuchenbecker PhD
Sunny Lie PhD
Christine Lundhal DMA
Abrianna Macon MA
Alex Madva PhD
Craig McLaren PhD
David Pittel PhD
Samantha St Claire MA
Georgiana Streeter MA
Rachel Van PhD
Mercedes Vargas MA
Anne Wohlcke PhD
Olga Griswold PhD
Alvaro Huerta PhD
Melanie Davis MA
Sandy Dixon EdD
Anna Cook MS
Collins College of Hospitality Management
Ben DeWald EdD
Ann Lara MA
Michael Reyes
Don St Hilaire Ed D
College of Business
Maha Ghosn MBA
Jun Myers PhD
John Morton PhD
Jacquelyn Trejo EdD
Amin Fereshteh EdD
Steven Wang
Andy Anderson PhD
University Library
Sally Romero EdD
Paul Hottinger MLIS
Rayheem Eskridge MLIS
Hannah Cole MA
Julie Shen MLIS
College of Science
Michael Liang PhD
Andrea Metzger EdD
Alane Daugherty PhD
Mai Narasaki-Jara EdD
Lara Killick PhD
RoseAnn A’Jontue
Punkaj Gupta MS
Stacy Musgrave PhD
Yan Liu PhD
Dale McCabe MS
Brenda Fuentes Calderon MS
Kevyn Gardner-Ricossa Phd
Kumar Jata PhD
Marry Jones MS
Maya Kasfy BS
Koyya Lewis-TrammelL PhD
Tesa Madsen-Hepp PhD
Ali Ozer Med
Jamie Snyder
College of Engineering
Javad Seif PhD
Kenneth Lamb PhD
Farbod Khoshnoud PhD
Jeyoung Woo PhD
Michael Ol PhD
Charlie Royas MS
Thanga Dasamoni MS
Frank Chandler PhD
Hyoung Soo Kim PhD
Monica Palomo PhD
Anas Salah Eddin PhD
Rosa Vasconez PhD
Andrew Pagnon MSc
College of Environmental Design
Claire Latane MLA
Lorena Garcia MLA
Kaleen Juarez MLA
Amy Davis Jones MA
Jessica Abe
Kyle Brown PhD
Kevin Finch M.Arch
Colleen Cochran
Kevin Finch M.Arch
Carlos Flores MLA
Eric Haley MLA
Dina Adbul Karim PhD
Barry Lehrman MLA/M.Arch
Weimin Li PhD
Bethann Morrison PhD
Devora Orrantes MFA
Philip Pregill MLA
Juliana Rico MFA
Steven Sandifer PhD
Rennie Tang MS
Andrew Wilcox MLA