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Sarah Bunnell

Director - Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of Psychology

Department: Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning

Office and address: Belk Pavilion-Teaching&Learning, Office 104 2610 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: 5503.

Brief Biography

Dr. Sarah L. Bunnell is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor of Psychology. She is past-president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, an ISSOTL Distinguished Service Award winner, and was recently selected as a Gardner Institute Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, which “recognizes distinctively innovative contributions to improving postsecondary education and student success.” A co-author of Being Human in STEM (2023, Routledge), Sarah is passionate about building student-faculty-staff partnerships to enhance teaching, learning, and thriving across educational spaces. Her research merges her disciplinary training in developmental and cognitive psychology with her 20 years of work in faculty development and SoTL. 

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Education

Ph.D., Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas

M.A., Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas

B.A., Neuroscience, Middlebury College