Andea Follmer Greenhoot

Andrea (“Dea”) Follmer Greenhoot is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and Gautt Teaching Scholar at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on memory and cognitive development and on strategies for advancing transformed teaching and learning in higher education, informed by cognitive and developmental science. Dea is also Associate Director of the Bay View Alliance (BVA), a consortium of research universities studying strategies to scale and sustain adoption of evidence-based and equity-minded teaching practices. She directs the BVA’s TRESTLE initiative, an NSF-funded effort looking at department-embedded expertise, community building, and public documentation of impact as mechanisms for department-level educational transformation. She also leads the KU effort on TEval, a BVA collaboration to transform teaching evaluation through a multi-dimensional, multi-source framework.