Augusta, Ga. – The Academy for Learning, a new initiative to enhance teaching and learning at Augusta State, will present its first program for the spring semester with a presentation by Marguerite Koepke, Professor Emerita at the University of Georgia (UGA), on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m. in the Jaguar Student Activities Center Butler Meeting Room. Ms. Koepke will discuss the Governor’s Teaching Fellows program as well as the history of the development of the Teaching and Learning Center at UGA.
Ms. Koepke, a landscape architect, has taught basic design, planting design, and computer applications, and is currently teaching Therapeutic Site Design. Her current practice includes research in therapeutic site design, preliminary master planning of healing gardens at Athens Regional Hospital and a preliminary design for a therapeutic garden planned to serve the new neuro-intensive care unit of Emory University Hospital.
She has directed the Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program since 2000 and has been involved in the area of faculty development as a charter member of the UGA Teaching Academy, as a Lilly Teaching Fellow, and as a University Senior Teaching Fellow.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia where she directs the Governor’s Teaching Fellows, an educational and faculty development program which serves faculty in higher education for State of Georgia.
Ms. Koepke holds degrees in landscape architecture from Iowa State University and Kansas State University and has an extensive record of professional design work in both the private and government sector. She has been at UGA in the School of Environmental Design since 1984 and previously taught at Kansas State University, as faculty in-residence in Aspen, and studied on scholarship in Cortona, Italy.
She has been honored with the Hubert B. Owens Distinguished Teaching Award at Kansas State University and was given the Student’s Choice Teaching Award at UGA in 2002. She also received the School of Environmental Design Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award.
For more information, call ASU’s Department of Learning Support at 706-737-1685.
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