Lori Mumpower.
Teaching · Research · Educational development

Teaching, learning, and the conditions for change.

I explore how faculty change their teaching, how learning moves across boundaries, and how institutions can support meaningful improvement.

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Selected work / 01

Ideas I’m exploring

Two connected lines of inquiry about the conditions that make learning and change possible.

01 / FACULTY ENGAGEMENT

Signals

How do institutions signal that teaching matters? A project about the environments that encourage faculty engagement and sustained improvement.

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02 / LEARNING & TRANSITION

Beginnings & Endings

What happens at the thresholds of learning? Exploring cognitive, social, and disciplinary transitions, with transfer at the center.

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Practice / 02

Scholarship and practice inform each other.

I'm an educator, researcher, and educational development leader at the University of Illinois Chicago. My work connects ideas about teaching and learning to the realities of classrooms, departments, and institutions.

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