Lisi

Bethany Lisi

Lecturer

Location

Goodell Hall

140 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

301 Goodell Building

Dr. Lisi works full-time in the UMass Amherst Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL). She serves as the organizational lead for CTL’s Midterm Assessment Process (MAP) and the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), provides consultations on syllabus and course design, active learning techniques, assessment design, and incorporating visuals into instructional practices, and is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration. She received a B.A. (University of Rhode Island) in Communications and Public Relations, an M.A. (University of Rhode Island) in Education with a certification to teach secondary English, and a Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst) in Education with a concentration in Higher Education. Previously, she served as Associate Director of Grants at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) and Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager at Queensborough Community College (Queens, NY), where she worked with faculty on securing funding for their academic and scientific research.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Lisi, B. (2017). Cooperative attention: Using qualitative case studies to study peer institutions. New Directions for Institutional Research, 174, 81-93.

Lisi, B. (2016). Subjectivities in the sandbox: Discovering biases through visual memo writing. To Improve the Academy, 35(2), 326-338.

Lisi, B. (2015). Using scaffolding approaches in organizational decision-making on grant funding. Journal of Grant Professionals Association, 13(1), 1-8. (invited article) 

Lisi, B. (2014). How instructional scaffolding can be used in faculty grant development. GPA Strategy Papers, 1(2), 1-4.