Kate Johnson

The Faculty Development branch of Faculty Affairs connects the UAGC faculty body to institutional work by creating training and professional development content on embracing UAGC student success priorities and facilitating their execution in each classroom. As the Associate Director of Faculty Development, Kate Johnson ensures that professional development supports faculty success by pushing a continuous engagement with literature on teaching and learning and partnership with Faculty Engagement and a broad set of institutional stakeholders, whose work defines curricular, instructional, and student support expectations. Her scholarly agenda deals with articulating a research-based definition of caring online instruction and identifying improvements to core teaching practices – specifically leveraging formative assessment to support students – that bring it to fruition.

After spending a decade working in sales, training, and product management in the corporate environment, Kate has served in higher education with a focus on adult learners since 2009. Kate holds a BA in Business and an MA in Public Administration. Her combination of management, instructional design, and teaching experience makes her passionate about increasing educators’ professional competence with effective pedagogy in the online environment. Meanwhile, her broad experience at the University – in admissions, student services, faculty engagement, faculty support, and adjunct faculty positions – makes her a knowledgeable partner and advocate for faculty, staff, and students alike. Under Kate’s oversight, the Faculty Development team launched a revised New Faculty Experience training, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Audit Rubric training, and – most recently – an institution-wide training to support a key institutional student success program, the UAGC Culture of Care; they work closely with the UAGC Curriculum and Assessment department to manage a Course Development Hub to support faculty who are innovating UAGC curricula.