Deborah Meizlish

Deborah Meizlish is senior assistant director at CRLT and coordinator of CRLT's grant programs. She consults with administrators, faculty, and TAs on course and curricular issues, including assessment; plans university-wide programs on teaching, learning, and academic leadership; and conducts seminars on a wide variety of pedagogical topics. Deborah's current college-level collaborations include the LSA Teaching Academy and the Ross Teaching Academy, programs that support faculty as they transition to teaching at Michigan. She also co-facilitates the LSA Large Course Initiative, a faculty learning community for large-course instructors in LSA. She was recently co-Principal Investigator on “The Impact of Meta-Cognitive Strategies within Writing in the Disciplines: Experiments to Improve Writing and Critical Thinking,” funded by the Teagle and Spencer Foundations. Deborah’s research and writing focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, academic hiring, preparing future faculty developers, and academic integrity. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.