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CRAIG E.
NELSON is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University
and a Carnegie Scholar (awarded in 2000 by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching). His
biological research (60+ articles) has
been on evolution and ecology, most recently on sex-determination in
turtles (where about half of the species have their gender
determined by incubation conditions, especially temperature). He has
taught several courses in
biology as well as intensive freshman seminars, Western Civilization
and other honors courses, and several collaboratively taught
interdisciplinary courses (mostly in environmental studies). He
regularly taught a graduate course on Alternative Approaches to
Teaching College Biology.
 His
teaching papers address critical thinking and mature valuing,
diversity, active learning, teaching
evolution and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He has
presented invited workshops these and related topics at numerous
national meetings and at many individual institutions (in 37 states,
Puerto Rico, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, England,
and South Africa). He has served on the
editorial boards of Journal for
Excellence In College Teaching, of JoSoTL (an electronic journal for
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning), and of the Journal of
Cooperation and Collaboration in College Teaching and has served on
the editorial panel of College Teaching and on teaching grant review
panels for the National Science Foundation and other national
programs in the US.
He was founding Director of Environmental Programs in IU's School of
Public and Environmental Affairs, was instrumental in the
development of IU's award winning Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning (SOTL) program (www.indiana.edu/~sotl/)
and was the first President of the International Society for the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (http://www.issotl.org/).
He received several awards for distinguished teaching from IU and
nationally competitive awards from Vanderbilt and Northwestern. He
is a Carnegie Scholar (since 2000). He was named the Outstanding
Research And Doctoral University Professor Of The Year 2000 by
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and
received the President's Medal for Excellence, "the highest
honor bestowed by Indiana University," in 2001.
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