Meet the Candidate for Director of Morgan Center: Jessi Hill Drop In Session UH 405

Meet the Candidate for the Director of the Morgan Center - Join Us in Shaping the Future

Jessi Hill, Utah Valley University

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

11:00 am - 11:45 pm

UH 405

Dr. Hill is a broadly prepared cognitive developmentalist who studies lifespan changes in cognition as an Associate Professor of Psychology at Utah Valley University, tenured in 2018. She is an internationally recognized scholar on teaching and learning and an award-winning educator who incorporates culturally relevant and learner-centered teaching across delivery modalities. All her work centers on student success and improving student learning outcomes, such as when she served as Director of the UVU Excelerate program, a project-based learning scholarship program. Dr. Hill implements high impact practices (HIPs) in her general psychology, cognitive psychology, and principles of learning classes as well as graduate and undergraduate seminars in the teaching of psychology. She also provides HIPs faculty development, such as during her time as Director of Project-Based Learning. A seasoned grant writer and researcher, Dr. Hill was awarded UVU’s first National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant. As a strong advocate for women leaders, she co-created the Utah Women's Leadership Exchange and served as the Inaugural Academic Director for UVU's Research Institute at UVU’s Women's Success Center. In recognition, Dr. Hill was awarded UVU's Presidential Award of Excellence for leadership for her work developing women leaders at UVU and throughout the state of Utah and the Faculty Service Award from UVU's Women's Success Center. She has been appointed as one of three Inaugural Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Faculty Fellows, and as such has focused her work on providing equitable access to education for marginalized groups. 

To learn more about Jessi Hill and the other candidates, enroll in this Canvas Course.