
Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Associate Provost
Faculty Development
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
msorcinelli@acad.umass.edu
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Mary Deane Sorcinelli is Associate
Provost for Faculty Development, Associate Professor in the Department of
Educational Policy and Research Administration, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, and Project Director of a new Mutual Mentoring Initiative funded by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is a Past President of the POD Network
(2000-04). She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English
and a doctoral degree in Higher Education. Under Dr. Sorcinelli’s
leadership, the Center for Teaching at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
was cited as one of the top four Model Faculty Development Programs in the U.S.
and Canada (2006), and was awarded the 2002 Innovation Award from the
Professional and Organizational Development Network and the 2000 Hesburgh Award
for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. |