Barbara J. Millis

Director of the Excellence in Teaching Program at the University of Nevada at Reno, received her Ph.D. in English literature from Florida State University. The former Director of Faculty Development at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA), she frequently offers workshops at professional conferences (AAHE, Lilly Teaching Conferences, etc.) and for over 300 colleges and universities.  She publishes articles on a variety of faculty development topics such as cooperative learning, peer classroom observations (she was a FIPSE Project Director on that topic), the teaching portfolio, microteaching, syllabus construction, classroom assessment/research, critical thinking, writing for publication, focus groups, writing across the curriculum, academic games, and course redesign. The IDEA paper series published Enhancing Learning—and More!—through Cooperative Learning available at

http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_38.pdf.     Oryx Press published in 1998 a book, co-authored with Philip Cottell, Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty.  In 2002 Stylus Press published Using Simulations to Enhance Learning in Higher Education, co-authored with John Hertel, which will be followed by a book on academic games.  While at USAFA, Barbara won both a teaching award and a research award, and after the Association of American Colleges and Universities selected the Academy as a Leadership Institution in Undergraduate Education in 2001, she began serving as the liaison to the AAC&U's Greater Expectations Consortium on Quality Education.  In 2002 Barbara loved being a Visiting Scholar at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.