About Deborah DeZure

Deborah DeZure is Assistant Provost for Faculty and Organizational Development and Senior Advisor to the Provost at Michigan State University (MSU) and Contributing Editor of Change Magazine. Before joining MSU, she was Director of Faculty Programs for the Life Sciences, Values and Society Program, a community outreach program of the University of Michigan (U-M), having earlier served as Coordinator of Faculty Programs at the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning at U-M for several years. She was Director of the Faculty Center for Instructional Excellence at Eastern Michigan University for a decade. At EMU she also served as Honors faculty and Assistant Director of the University Honors Program, Special Assistant to the VP of Marketing and Student Affairs, and Education Consultant and Executive Writer for the President.

Deborah earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Humanities and Education) from New York University . She has edited two books, entitled Learning from Change: Landmarks on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from Change Magazine (1969-1999) (AAHE, 2000) and To Improve the Academy (POD Network, 1997). In addition to her role as a Contributing Editor of Change Magazine, she also serves on the editorial boards of five journals on teaching and learning in higher education, and publishes and presents widely on university teaching and faculty and leadership development. Deborah has served on the Advisory Group on the Scholarship of Engagement for AAHE, the Working Group on Integrative Learning for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and more recently on the Board of Directors for both the Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) and About Campus. As a Senior Fellow at AAC&U, she was co-PI on a research project related to the Integrative Learning Project sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and AAC&U. Deb’s areas of special interest are active learning; case studies; interdisciplinary and integrative teaching and learning; assessing student learning; academic service learning; models of faculty development, particularly discipline-based instructional development; and the development of academic leadership.

At MSU, Deborah oversees faculty development programs, including the Lilly Teaching Seminars, Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, New Faculty Orientation, New Faculty Breakfasts with the Provost, the Spring Institute Week-Long Workshops, and new initiatives that support MSU faculty emeriti as well as faculty learning communities to provide ongoing discussion groups on teaching/learning. She also oversees organizational and leadership development initiatives, including the MULTI workshops for chairs and directors, New Administrator Orientation, the CIC Academic Leadership Fellows Program, and the new Executive Leadership Academy (ELA) that includes ELA seminars and an ELA fellows program. She also provides individual and small group consultations on both instructional and leadership issues.

Deb and her husband Tom DeZure have two children, Jessica 30 and Adam 25.