TEK Faculty Fellows Bring Transdisciplinary Voices to the 2025 UK Teaching Excellence Symposium
On October 10, 2025, the University of Kentucky’s Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) hosted its second biennial UK Teaching Excellence Symposium - a campus-wide gathering for instructors to share effective and innovative practices in teaching and learning. Among the presenters at the symposium were several current and former TEK Faculty Fellows. Many offered sessions that bridged their work in transdisciplinary pedagogy with broader conversations about teaching excellence.
The TEK Faculty Fellows program is designed to support faculty in developing and redesigning undergraduate courses with a stronger focus on essential employability skills (such as communication, collaboration, multiple viewpoints, and reflection) and transdisciplinary engagement. Fellows work in cohorts, participate in faculty learning communities, and receive support from CELT to embed these skills in their courses. Their presence at the UK Teaching Excellence Symposium underscores an important goal: to bring TEK’s pedagogical approaches into dialogue with the broader campus teaching community.
A list of TEK Faculty Fellows who presented at the symposium is below:
- Renee Bonzani
- Christy Brady
- Liz Combs
- Jens Hannemann
- Jason Hans
- Lou Hirsch
- Chris Huggins
- Muzhen Li
- Patrick Lee Lucas
- Winter Phong
- Erin Richard
- Savannah Robin
- Rachel Shane
- Sarah Vos