{"id":13247,"date":"2020-11-20T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/?p=13247"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:50:33","slug":"associate-professor-rachel-fleming-may-receives-alise-teacher-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/sis\/2020\/11\/20\/associate-professor-rachel-fleming-may-receives-alise-teacher-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Receives ALISE Teacher of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5330 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RachelFlemingMay.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Fleming-May\" \/>Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctoral degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was thrust into teaching with no real preparation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>This practical approach to teaching, combined with a conscious effort to be responsive to student needs and to highlight diverse perspectives, has molded Fleming-May\u2019s teaching style for the 11 years she\u2019s been at the School of Information Sciences. Her work in the classroom earned her the 2020 Teacher of the Year Award from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alise.org\"> Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)<\/a>, which she received this fall at the ALISE Conference.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was honored to be nominated and selected as the recipient of this award, and was especially thankful to her past students, SIS alumni, who wrote letters of support as part of her nomination. Watching students grasp concepts and take them out into the real world is a particularly gratifying part of teaching, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy students are always surprising me; I have expectations and they always manage to exceed my expectations and help me look at things in a fresh way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming-May\u2019s role as a faculty member has been especially student-centric ever since she became director of graduate studies (DGS) for SIS three years ago. She pointed out that SIS has one of the largest graduate programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with its more than 300 masters students comprising about eight percent of the university\u2019s graduate population. This program has also continued to grow over the last few years, making the role of DGS even more crucial. It\u2019s been a lot of work, and Fleming-May said she could not have done it without Tanya Arnold, SIS Coordinator of Student Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the best things about this position is getting to work closely with Tanya, who I always knew did a ton of work, but I have a different and even greater appreciation for everything she does,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve also really enjoyed working with the staff at the Graduate School, and getting a broader perspective on the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director of graduate studies undertakes plenty of administrative duties, but one of the most important and visible duties is speaking with potential students\u2014when people filled out forms expressing interest in the program, the next step was a phone call with Fleming-May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRachel\u00a0is dedicated to supporting the success of our students.\u00a0This tireless dedication is apparent in her teaching of many important and popular MSIS courses, her advising, and in her service as director of graduate studies. She is often the first personal touchpoint potential students have with our program and, for many students, a conversation with her was the reason why they choose SIS,\u201d said SIS Interim Director Carol Tenopir.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming-May said that reviewing applications and speaking to potential and newly accepted students has given her a unique and fun opportunity to get to know the incoming SIS students better than she ever had the chance to in the past. But her time as director of graduate studies for SIS is coming to a close, and she\u2019s working with <a href=\"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/2020\/09\/10\/faculty-spotlight-clinical-assistant-professor-ericka-patillo-will-lead-graduate-studies\">SIS Clinical Assistant Professor Ericka Patillo<\/a>, who will fully take over the role in fall 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEricka will do a great job\u2014she brings a wealth of experience and academic knowledge with her. She already has a lot of really creative ideas and I\u2019m excited to see what she does as DGS,\u201d Fleming-May said.<\/p>\n<p>While she has enjoyed this unique time in her career, Fleming-May is looking forward to taking a deep dive back into her research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch is something I put on the backburner over the past few years, so I have a number of projects that I\u2019m excited to get back to. A lot of my past research is with assessment, and I\u2019ll be doing more with that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctoral degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class. \u201cHow I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,129,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-faculty-news","category-featured-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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