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Dr.
Mathew L. Ouellett, Director
E-mail:
mlo@acad.umass.edu
 Mathew L.
Ouellett is the Director of the Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also President of the Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD) in Higher Education (2006-2009) and is a past president of the New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC).
In the capacity of center director, Matt works closely with graduate students and faculty members, department chairs, deans, and the office of the provost to implement a full scope of teaching and learning-related programs for instructors across the disciplines. These programs focus on new- and early-career faculty development (e.g., Lilly Teaching Fellows Program); initiatives with academic chairs and deans (e.g., annual deans and chairs conference); grants and award programs (e.g., DTA Award, Celebration of Teaching Dinner); diversity- and teaching-related initiatives (e.g., Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Fellows Program); senior graduate students programs (e.g., annual campus-wide Teaching Assistant Orientation, Teaching Documentation Program, and From Graduate Student to Faculty Member: The CFT Mentoring Program for Graduate Students of Color); and instructional assessment activities. Additionally, Matt is co-chair of the Academic Affairs Community, Diversity and Social Justice Committee, a campus-wide diversity change initiative.
Since 1994, Dr. Ouellett has consulted with hundreds of individual graduate students, faculty members, and departments on classroom, course design and program development issues. In the academic year-long faculty and graduate student teaching development fellowship, Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom Faculty and Teaching Assistant Development Program, he works with faculty and graduate students at the departmental level to address issues of teaching inclusively.
In addition to his contributions to the CFT, Dr. Ouellett is a lecturer in the School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he regularly teaches EDUC 595K: Introduction to College Teaching. Since 1994, he has also served as a summer lecturer in the Smith College School for Social Work where he teaches both required and elective graduate courses on the implications of social, political, and economic theories of racism and strategies for clinical social work practice: HBSE 334A: Racism in the United States: Implications for Clinical Practice and HBSE 5534A: Advanced Studies in Race and Racism: Implications for Clinical Practice.
Dr. Ouellett is often invited to participate in regional, national and international faculty development institutes. He has given hundreds of seminars to teachers in both secondary and higher education settings on a range of diversity related topics and is regularly asked to be a presenter for teaching development institutes.
Most recently, Dr. Ouellett has been the recipient of both internal and external research support grants including funding from the Ford Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Richard Nathan Trusts, and the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Studies. Dr. Ouellett has also published articles and book chapters on a range of research and teaching interests related to teaching inclusively and multicultural organization development in higher education. He is the editor of the volume, Teaching Inclusively: Resources for Course, Departmental and Institutional Change in Higher Education (2005) from New Forums Press.
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