Andrea Dea Follmer Greenhoot

I am a Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Gautt Teaching Scholar at the University of Kansas. My research in psychology focuses on cognitive and memory development, and with a special focus on how we process and remember significant life experiences. My work in higher education explores strategies for systemic improvement of postsecondary teaching and learning, informed by cognitive and developmental science. Much of this work has examined strategies for improving learning and student development in diverse populations of students, for using assessment data to improve teaching and learning, for representing and evaluating teaching, and for scaling these activities to produce widespread change. Recent projects include TEval, an NSF-funded collaboration to transform the evaluation of teaching in higher education (their findings are detailed in Transforming College Teaching Evaluation: A Framework for Instructional Excellence, Harvard Education Press, 2025), and KU's Transforming STEM Initiative, a collaboration with 14 institutions to foster anti-deficit pedagogy across the introductory science curriculum. From 2016 to 2025, I served as Associate Director and then Director of the Bay View Alliance, a consortium of US and Canadian research universities collaborating on educational improvement initiatives. I currently sit on the National Academies' Roundtable for Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education.