Dr. Lindsay Masland

Dr. Lindsay Masland is the executive director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success at Appalachian State, where she develops and implements a variety of programming designed to support teachers in higher education. She's also a professor affiliated with the Psychology Department, serves as consulting editor for journals that focus on teaching in higher ed, and has received both university and national teaching awards.

Masland's interests lie at the intersection of student engagement and effective teaching practices, and her passion is to help educators make sound pedagogical choices that lead to transformative educational experiences for the many types of students they find in their classrooms. She's also very interested in the positionality of teachers in higher education, including the societal and systemic pressures that conspire to devalue the role of teaching and learning in academia. In short, she's an enthusiast for transformative experiences for all who endeavor to teach and learn in higher ed.

Areas of expertise

• College student engagement and disengagement
• The science of teaching and learning
• Effective college teaching
• Ungrading and other alternative assessment approaches