Dr. Jeffery Galle and Dr. Jo K. Galle have served as faculty and administrators at universities in the Atlanta area for sixteen years. Both of us earned the doctorate at LSU followed by nearly 20 years at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. As full professors and taking ‘early retirement,’ we were selected for different positions in the Atlanta area in 2008. For all these years, the commitment to student learning has been the basis for our classroom and administrative work. Our new book Putting it All Together: Creating and Scaling Exceptional Learning (August 2023) includes both our design efforts and the work of more than twenty-five colleagues.
More details of our individual work are below. Please reach out to us by email with any questions at jgalle@jgalle.com or fill out the brief form at the bottom of this page.
Jeff Galle
Jeffery Galle most recently led a system-wide faculty learning community program initiative focused on course changes for the University System of Georgia (2018-22), led pedagogical programming for ten years at Emory University’s Oxford College (2008-2018), and chaired the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe for nine years (1998-2007).
His work has focused on empowering faculty to spark learning through active learning classroom strategies, the creation of immersive experiential learning, the design of flexible course units, and just-in-time assessment of learning. In his own courses, Galle developed effective pedagogical materials for students at every level of academic preparation. Galle embedded all his courses, from first-year through masters level, with innovative pedagogies.
Collaborations with colleagues have led to a number of co-authored and co-edited books. Most recently, in 2023, Putting it All Together provided a frame for more than 30 individual chapters by faculty, administrators, and staff to describe individual innovative practices and programs. In two other books, Faculty Learning Communities: Chancellor’s Learning Scholars for Student Success (2021) and Campus Conversations (2021), Galle and Domizi offer the work of a system-wide faculty learning communities program. From the Emory work, Revitalizing Classrooms: Innovations and Inquiry Pedagogies in Practice (2017), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education: From Abstract to the Quotidian, (2017), and Teaching, Pedagogy, and Learning: Fertile Ground for Campus and Community Innovations (2017), all provide the work of multiple scholar-teachers. And in 2015, he co-authored with Satu Rogers the book How to be a HIP College Campus: Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education.
Jo Galle
Professor Emerita of Georgia Gwinnett College
Jo Galle served as the Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) for thirteen years. She is now a Professor Emerita. At GGC, she was responsible for the academic assessment program and the academic internship program, and she also helped to establish 17 new baccalaureate programs, to create chapters of 17 national academic honor societies, to develop the comprehensive academic program review process, and to facilitate the formation of the academic honors program. She hopes to share her knowledge and skills of these academic building processes with other faculty and administrators.
Prior to her most recent work, she served as the Director of Assessment and Evaluation at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and as the Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning, and Assessment at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia. In these previous positions, she frequently gave assessment workshops to faculty in various disciplines. She also presented workshops to staff about unit assessment in the divisions of business and student affairs. Also in these prior roles, she led implementation efforts for a new general education curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and worked on accreditation efforts and SACSCOC review at Southern Polytechnic State University.
Her scholarship has focused primarily on assessment and other issues in higher education. She has published on assessment and given national presentations at SACSCOC; AAC&U; the ABET Assessment Symposium; POD; the Foundations of Excellence Annual Conference; the Indianapolis University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Assessment Institute; and the NASPA Assessment and Persistence Conference. She also has conducted research on major writers of the modern South and presented on such authors as William Faulkner, Ellen Gilchrist, and Shirley Ann Grau.
In addition to her presentations at the Annual Meetings of SACSCOC, she also has frequently served as a SACSCOC evaluator and has been on on-site Compliance Certification and QEP visits.
She received her Master of Arts and her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.
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