Casey Dinger, Executive and Academic Director for Internationalization, University of Denver.
Casey works with campus constituents to develop, implement and facilitate initiatives related to comprehensive internationalization, particularly Internationalization at Home which is meant to provide all students with access to global learning and perspectives. This includes advancing global and intercultural learning through the formal and informal curriculum.
His research focuses on faculty member engagement and development in intercultural and international education. Additionally, Casey provides academic and administrative oversight, direction and management of intercultural development coursework tied to cross-border education experiences, serving 750+ students per year. This includes curriculum design, assessment, and instructor development including supporting a learning-centered pedagogy.
Leslie Alvarez, Assistant Vice Provost, Director of the Office of Teaching and Learning, University of Denver.
Leslie has a PhD in Educational Psychology, Learning and Instruction from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She spent 13 years as a faculty member, earning full professor, in the psychology department at Adams State University, a Hispanic-serving Institution in rural southern Colorado.
As an Educational Psychologist, her interests generally focus on the confluence of psychology and educational practice. At Adams State this led to a part time administrative appointment in which she served as the founding director of a Center for Teaching and Learning funded by a federal Title V grant. Her early research agenda focused on achievement motivation and goal orientation. Since, her interests have broadened to include impacts of faculty development on student experience, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and gender and diversity, in particular the representation of women in the psychology curriculum.
