Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies Professor of Biology
Dr. Alison I. Morrison-Shetlar is Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Biology at the University of Central Florida (UCF).
In 1984 Dr. Morrison-Shetlar received her doctorate from Dundee College of Technology and was a Research Scientist at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, London, UK. from 1984 – 1988. In 1988 she was invited to be a senior scientist at the Max-Planck Institute in Dortmund, Germany and established and served as Head of the Molecular Biology Department. A move to the United States in 1993 brought her to teach and research at Wesleyan University and Trinity College in Connecticut and in 1995 she joined the Biology Department at Georgia Southern University. While at Georgia Southern University, Dr. Morrison-Shetlar was a faculty member and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching. She was also awarded the Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning in 1998 and again in 1999. At the university she was awarded the University Excellence in Teaching award, and the College of Science and Technology Excellence in Teaching award in 2001. Dr. Morrison-Shetlar joined UCF in 2002 as Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning where she has built strong programs to support faculty and GTA teaching and learning success. She was appointed Dean of Undergraduate Studies in April 2007 and Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies in September 2008 (http://www.undergrad.ucf.edu/).
Dr. Morrison-Shetlar is co-author of Teaching Creatively: Ideas in Action (Outernet Publishing, 2001) with Dr. Mary Marwitz and has numerous publications on her scientific and educational research. She provides consultancies, workshops and keynote addresses nationally on teaching and learning with a focus on learning community development. Dr. Morrison-Shetlar has received over $3 M in grant funding for scientific and educational research and is involved in the assessment of many grants and projects nationally. She is founder and Chair of Florida Faculty Development Consortium (FFDC) and was Co-chair of the Southern Regional Faculty Instruction and Development Consortium (SRFIDC) from 2004-07.