MSU College of Law professor Kristi Bowman has been awarded a MSU Lilly Teaching Fellowship for the 2009-10 academic year. Intended to advance the university’s continuing efforts to support excellence in teaching and learning, the MSU Lilly Teaching Fellows Program provides select tenure-track faculty the opportunity to maximize their teaching abilities by encouraging different teaching skills.
“I am honored to have been selected for the Lilly Fellowship and to be representing the Law College in this program,” Bowman said. “I look forward to studying the scholarship of teaching and learning this next year, and emerging from the program as a stronger leader with even more valuable teaching practices.”
The program is designed to encourage fellows to become future faculty leaders and models for their peers.
“Professor Bowman exemplifies MSU Law’s commitment to student learning and success,” MSU Law Dean Joan Howarth said. “Her students praise her dedication, creativity and passion for teaching. Professor Bowman is an outstanding choice for the Lilly Fellows Program.”
A major component of the program is for the professor to engage in a more interactive teaching and learning process while sustaining teaching excellence. Bowman will study law students’ receptivity to non-traditional instructional methods such as problem-based learning, and use results to help shape the education law textbook she is currently writing.
With academic interests in education law and policy and constitutional law, Bowman has published numerous articles in scholarly journals examining the teaching of evolution in public schools as well as school desegregation. For more information on her research and biography, visit her profile.
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