Dr. Lindsay Masland, Executive Director
(828) 262-7596
maslandlc@appstate.edu
Dr. Lindsay Masland is the Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success (CETLSS). Lindsay works with a dedicated team to foster a dynamic and supportive environment for faculty development and student success. Under Lindsay's leadership, CETLSS provides a wide range of resources, workshops, programs, consultations, and communities designed to promote effective teaching approaches and to support faculty in career success. In additional to strategic leadership and team facilitation, Lindsay continues to engage in the front-line educational development that brought her to this discipline in the first place. For example, she continues to coordinate the Student Instructional Feedback Technique (SIFT) program, the Course ReDesign Institute, the Teaching Quality Framework Grants, and the Teaching and Student Success Lab (TASSL). As time allows, she also provides teaching observations, consultations, and workshops on transformative teaching for both individuals and programs.
Lindsay came to App State in 2011 after completing a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Statistics from the University of Georgia. Lindsay also earned BA and MA degrees in Experimental Psychology at Wake Forest University. While at App State, as a Full Professor of Psychology, she has contributed to the undergraduate Psychology major and the graduate School Psychology MA/SSP degree program, where she taught courses in statistics, educational psychology, and pedagogy. Past roles in CETLSS (previously called the Center for Academic Excellence) included the Early Career Programming Coordinator from 2017-2022, the Associate Director for Faculty Professional Development from 2020-2022, and the Director of Transformative Teaching and Learning from 2022-2024.
Currently, Lindsay serves as consulting editor for two journals that focus on teaching in higher ed — Teaching of Psychology and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. She is also very involved in Division 2 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Teaching of Psychology), including having served as the Director of the Annual Conference on Teaching. Lindsay is the recipient of a university-wide teaching award (the Board of Governors Appalachian State University Excellence in Teaching award) and a national teaching award (the Jane S. Halonen Teaching Excellence Award for Early Career Psychologists).
Lindsay'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.