Michele DiPietro

Dr. Michele DiPietro is the Executive Director for Faculty Development, Recognition, and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and a Professor in the School of Data Science and Analytics at Kennesaw State University. As Executive Director of CETL, Dr. DiPietro oversees university wide faculty and graduate student development efforts, both in pedagogy with Scholarly Teaching unit of CETL and beyond (career and leadership development) with the Faculty Success unit of CETL. 

With their former Carnegie Mellon colleagues, Dr. DiPietro is a co-author of “How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.” The book was listed at #3 in a “Top 10 Books on Teaching” list on the Chronicle of Higher Education. Their scholarly interests include learning sciences, diversity and inclusion, the scholarship of teaching and learning, academic integrity, statistics education, the consultation process in faculty development, and teaching in times of tragedy. They have presented hundreds of workshops and keynotes at numerous colleges and conferences, in the US, including at institutions such as Yale, Colombia, University of Chicago, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as abroad, in nations such as Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan. Some of their scholarship has been translated into foreign languages (Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Arabic). They won the POD Innovation award for the online consultation tool “Solve a Teaching Problem.” Their innovative course “The statistics of sexual orientation” has been featured on the Chronicle of Higher Education and several other magazines. They served as Chair of the Georgia Consortium of Centers for Teaching and Learning, President of the POD Network in Higher Education, the premiere educational development association in North America, Board Member of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED), and Conference Chair of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Dr. DiPietro is the 2015 recipient of the Bob Pierleoni Spirit of POD award, the highest honor bestowed in the field of educational development for professional achievement and legacy to the field.