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Background in Faculty Development
- Currently Virginia has her own consulting business, Virginia S. Lee & Associates, specializing in teaching, learning and assessment in higher education.
- Previously she has worked as…
- Associate Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at North Carolina State University, (January 2000-March 2004) and
- Director of Graduate Student Teaching Programs and as a Consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (June 1995-December 1999).
- Virginia has been active in the POD Network [Professional and Organizational Development] in Higher Education, the largest faculty development organization in the United States. She…
- served on the Core Committee (2000-2004)
- chaired its Publication Committee, and
- is the President of POD for 2008-2009.
Workshop Experience
- She designed a popular workshop series, Foundations in Teaching, focused on principles of intentional course design, which she has offered in various formats to faculty and graduate students on many campuses.
- At NC State she led a campus-wide inquiry-guided learning initiative, working with numerous faculty and departments to incorporate inquiry-guided learning into courses and curricula. Her book, Teaching and Learning through Inquiry, documents many aspects of this initiative.
- Virginia has led workshops at campuses around the country on a variety of topics, including:
- intentional course and curriculum design,
- outcomes-based assessment,
- inquiry-guided learning, and
- teaching in intensive course formats.
Other General Information
- In 2000 she received the Creative and Innovative Program Award of Merit for an Administrative Program by the National Association of Summer School Deans for a seminar she designed on teaching in intensive course formats.
- Edited by Virginia with contributions from 37 NCSU faculty and staff, Teaching and Learning through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors (2004: Stylus), describes many aspects of the inquiry-guided learning initiative at NC State.
- As a faculty member at both NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill, she taught a three-credit course on college teaching in which she guided hundreds of graduate students in designing post-secondary courses of their choosing.
- She holds a Ph.D. (Educational Psychology), UNC-Chapel Hill; MBA, Stern School, New York University; and B.A. cum laude (English Literature), Smith College.
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Publications
Teaching and Learning through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors
(2004: Stylus)
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