Lori Mumpower
Executive Director
Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Contact
Building & Room:
Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) Room 106
Email:
College Contact for:
College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Social Work
About
Dr. Lori Mumpower is the Executive Director for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She joined UIC in May 2024, having spent 6 years directing the teaching and learning center at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Dr. Mumpower is the recipient of the 2024 Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development for "Driving and Resisting Pedagogical Change: Lessons Post-Pandemic." She is also the recipient of the 2023 Professional and Organizational Development Network Innovation Award for "Small Teaching, Big Results: Leveraging Department Chairpersons to Improve Teaching and Learning." Dr. Mumpower previously held faculty appointments at Valdosta State University and the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Mumpower's scholarly research centers on educational development, student-centered teaching practices, and faculty mentoring.
Dr. Mumpower earned her B.A. in mathematics and English at Columbia College, her M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy at the University of Oklahoma, and her Ph.D. in Texts and Technology from the University of Central Florida.
When not working, Lori enjoys running and cycling, exploring Chicagoland with her husband Janson and daughter Aurelia, and harassing her cat.
Selected Publications
Mumpower, L. A. (2025). Small teaching, big results: Leveraging department chairpersons to improve teaching and learning. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, 44(1), 8. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/5333/
Mumpower, L., Rohrbacher, C., Caulkins, J., & Korentsides, J. (2024). Measuring pandemic change: Analyzing syllabi for student-centeredness over time. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, 43(2), 311–338. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/5339/
Wojton, J., & Mumpower, L. (2024). Assessing and supporting the needs of mid-career faculty mentors. In V. Baker (Ed.), Building your academic mid-career toolkit (pp. 96–107). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003428626-11
Wojton, J., & Mumpower, L. (2021). Current practices in a STEM university: Toward a networked mentoring approach. Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching, 5(14), 537–541.
Mumpower, L. A., Branham, C., Clevenger, A. D., Faulconer, E., & Watkins, A. (2020). Digital literacies in the classroom. In E. Alqurashi (Ed.), Handbook of research on fostering student engagement with instructional technology in higher education (pp. 116–138). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0246-4.ch006
Branham, C., Blomstrom, S., Mumpower, L., Kissh, K., Wiley, J., Liu, Y., Miller, K., Bryant, Z., & Reedy, B. (2019). Digital studio tutors as partners. International Journal for Students as Partners, 3(1), 140–149. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v3i1.3652
Blomstrom, S. A., Hayford, B., Mumpower, L., & Bobinsky, A. (2016). Service-learning and STEM literacy. In Research in science education (Vol. VII): Science and service-learning (pp. 19–48).
Hayford, B., Blomstrom, S., & Mumpower, L. (2015). Formation and evaluation of a tool to evaluate STEM literacy in service-learning projects. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 26(4), 73–101.
Mumpower, L. (2014). Visualizing causality: A peer-review exercise. In R. Brickey et al. (Eds.), The write book: Classroom exercises for the composition instructor (pp. 161–164).
Soria, K., & Mumpower, L. (2012). Critical building blocks: Mandatory prerequisite registration systems on student success. NACADA Journal, 32(1), 30–42.