Michael Theall

Mike has been a faculty member and/or directed teaching centers at four universities. He has developed, implemented, and managed student ratings systems at two institutions and installed ratings systems at a score of other institutions. Mike’s scholarship includes more than 260 books, monographs, papers, presentations, and workshops on college teaching, faculty evaluation and development, student ratings, the professoriate, teaching improvement, and organizational development. He has consulted to scores of institutions in the U.S. and in Canada, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

His primary research is on faculty evaluation, professional development, organizational development, and student ratings of teaching. He has been chair of the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group in Faculty Teaching, Evaluation, and Development (AERA-SIGFTED); a member of the Executive Committee of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD); and president of POD.