Dr. Kelly Mack
Vice President for Undergraduate STEM Education and Executive Director of Project Kaleidoscope at the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Golden, CO – Codon Learning has appointed Dr. Kelly Mack to its advisory board.
Dr. Mack is the Vice President for Undergraduate STEM Education and Executive Director of Project Kaleidoscope at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In this capacity, Dr. Mack provides leadership for the organization’s mission level commitments to quality and inclusion through the delivery of world class STEM faculty professional development institutes. Prior to joining AAC&U, Dr. Mack was the Senior Program Director for the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program while on loan from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where, as a Professor of Biology, she taught courses in Physiology and Endocrinology for 17 years.
Dr. Mack’s holistic approach to STEM reform is grounded in a strategic vision that foregrounds inclusion as an immutable factor for achieving excellence in undergraduate STEM education. Her leadership in STEM reform has led to: significant increases in the capacity of STEM faculty to implement culturally responsive pedagogies, major shifts in the ways in which leadership development for STEM faculty is delivered, and the expansion of both physical and virtual convening platforms for knowledge generation, exchange, and dissemination.
Recognized as a national thought leader in higher education, Dr. Mack’s work has been highlighted in Diverse Magazine and U.S. News and World Report. Currently, she serves on the external advisory boards for several institutional transformation initiatives at NSF-funded ADVANCE and HBCU Undergraduate Program institutions, as Co-Editor of the ADVANCE Journal Special Issue, and as a member of the Howard University School of Arts and Sciences Board of Visitors. Dr. Mack is also co-founder and chair of the board of the Society of STEM Women of Color, Inc.
On her appointment to the board, Dr. Mack said “Whether we accept it or not, we have reached an extremely critical juncture in undergraduate STEM education where the urgency for basic STEM literacy, the demand for inclusiveness, and the desire for global competitiveness have compelled us to seriously question what more we can do to empower our faculty. CODON has an answer. They have taken the bold step toward equipping STEM faculty with uniquely-designed and fully customizable tools, assessments, and resources that prioritize reflection as the immutable factor necessary for achieving enhanced teaching practice and better learning outcomes for even our most marginalized students.”