Director | Dr. Alison Marr

Alison, Garey Chair and Professor of Mathematics, brings extensive experience in teaching, scholarship, mentoring, and academic leadership to her role as Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CTLS). Her teaching emphasizes inquiry-based learning, student engagement, and creating opportunities for students to explore mathematics collaboratively. She is co-director of the EDGE Program, which supports women pursuing doctoral degrees in mathematics, and was named an Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Fellow. At Southwestern, she has received both the Southwestern Teaching Award and the Joe S. Mundy Service Award, served as department chair and chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, and led Paideia as director and co-chair of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) that transformed the program. A published book author with more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, Marr views teaching, scholarship, and mentoring as interconnected endeavors. Her leadership philosophy centers on collaboration, curiosity, developing others as leaders, and creating space for people to share ideas, experiment, and grow. She looks forward to building on CTLS’s work to support faculty as teacher-scholars and foster a community where teaching, learning, and scholarship inform and enrich one another. Stop by her office in SLC 142 any time!

Instructional Designer  |  Elena Winzeler

Elena serves as Southwestern University’s first dedicated Instructional Designer, bringing over a decade of designing learning experiences for all ages and modalities to the CTLS team. She holds an M.A. in Learning Technologies and prior to joining Southwestern she led career and skills development at a 12,000+ global technology company.

Driven by the goal of helping faculty learn from and with each other, Elena believes that a self-sustaining participatory learning culture is essential to a thriving campus. She brings perspectives from learning science, instructional design, and user experience design into consultations and professional development programming to support all Southwestern faculty in their teaching. Elena also provides administrative and faculty assistance for Moodle (learning management system) and Watermark (course evaluation platform) while exploring the ethical, effective integration of emerging technologies like generative AI in liberal arts education. Drop by her office in SLC 143 or reach out to connect!

Locations

CTLS  Smith Library Center, #140, 1001 E. University Avenue, Georgetown, TX 78626	To contact and/or to set up a time to meet, please send an email to Alison at marra@southwestern.edu.
Instructional Design	To contact and/or to set up a time to meet, please send an email to Elena at winzelere@southwestern.edu. For questions about Moodle, please use the following email addresses: Moodle - moodle@southwestern.edu