Texas Microcredentials
With funding from the Strada Education Foundation’s Beyond Completion Challenge grant, the Office of Academic Affairs collaborated with Skyepack, an elearning company to create a 4-week online primer course on microcredentials. This course was developed to help prepare faculty and staff find new ways to embed industry-recognized microcredentials within academic courses and experiences to help UT students be better prepared for the world of work.
The course will shift to a self-paced course and any UT faculty or staff member from will be able to begin the course starting in Fall 2023. Please use this link to register for the course
The Office of Academic Affairs would like to recognize the following faculty and staff who completed the microcredential course in Summer 2023 or Summer 2023:
UT Austin
| Linda Dickens | linda.dickens@austin.utexas.edu | Accreditation Liaison, Strategic Academic Initiatives | 2023 |
| Morgan Ginther | morgan.ginther@austin.utexas.edu | Project Coordinator, Provost's Office | 2023 |
| Robert Vega | r.vega@austin.utexas.edu | Deputy Director, Texas Career Engagement | 2023 |
| Komal Gandhi | komal.gandhi@austin.utexas.edu | Education Program Manager | 2023 |
| Eric Busch | Eric.Busch@austin.utexas.edu | Director of Online Programs, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences | 2023 |
| Gayle Timmerman | gtimmerman@mail.utexas.edu | Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, School of Nursing | 2023 |
| J.E. Johnson | jjohnson@texasperformingarts.org | Assistant Professor of Practice, Design, and Technology | 2023 |
| Shelly Furness | rachelle.furness@utexas.austin.edu | Instructional Designer, Moody College of Communication | 2023 |
| Mary Crawford | mary.crawford@austin.utexas.edu | Director, Center for Advancing Teaching Excellence, Moody College of Communication | 2022 |
| Leanne Field | field@austin.utexas.edu | Clinical Professor, School of Human Ecology | 2022 |
| Karen French | kdfrench@austin.utexas.edu | Associate Director, Office of Instructional Innovation, College of Education | 2022 |
| Cynthia Labrake | labrake@austin.utexas.edu | Professor of Instruction, Biology Instruction Office | 2022 |
| Matt Mangum | matt.mangum@austin.utexas.edu | Director, Faculty Technology Studio Cockrell School of Engineering | 2022 |
| Javier Motta-Mena | javier@austin.utexas.edu | Informational Technology Specialist, McCombs School of Business | 2022 |
| John St. Lawrence | jes@austin.utexas.edu | Senior Adminstrative Associate, College of Liberal Arts | 2022 |
| John Turci-Escobar | turci-escobar@austin.utexas.edu | Assistant Dean, College of Fine Arts | 2022 |
| Dhivya Arasappan | darasappan@austin.utexas.edu | Research Scientist, Center for Biomedical Research Support | 2022 |
| Christopher Ruggeri | cruggeri@utexas.edu | Events Program Coordinator, Cockrell School of Engineering | 2022 |
| Amanda Vines | amanda.vines@utexas.edu | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biology Instruction Office | 2022 |
| Veronica Young | youngv@austin.utexas.edu | Director, Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education | 2022 |
UT Arlington
| Martha Walvoord | walvoord@uta.edu | Professor of Music | 2023 |
| Ann Eckhardt | ann.eckhardt@uta.edu | Interim Chair of Graduate Nursing, Clinical Professor of Graduate Nursing | 2023 |
| Robin Macaluso | robin.macaluso@uta.edu | Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry | 2023 |
| Masoud Rostami | Masoud.rostami@uta.edu | Assistant Professor of Instruction | 2023 |
| Kimberly Tate | kimberly.tate@uta.edu | Registrar | 2023 |
| Hannah Lebovits | hannah.lebovits@uta.edu | Assistant Professor, Public Affairs and Planning | 2023 |
| Lolin Martins-Crane | lolin.martinscrane@uta.edu | Director, Career Development Center | 2023 |
| Hugh Kellam | hugh.kellam@uta.edu | Assistant Professor, College of Education | 2023 |
| Young-tae Kim, BE | ykim@uta.edu | Associate Professor, Bioengineering | 2023 |
| Rosie Kallie, IMSE | rosie.kallie@uta.edu | Associate Professor of Instruction, Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering | 2023 |
| Chien Le | chien.le@uta.edu | Clinical Assistant Professor, Marketing | 2023 |
| Barbara Berthold | barbara.berthold@uta.edu | Assistant Chair, Department of Modern Languages, Senior Lecturer of German | 2023 |
| Rebecca Deen | deen@uta.edu | Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Political Science | 2022 |
| Karen Magruder | karen.magruder@uta.edu | Assistant Professor In Practice of Social Work | 2022 |
| Diann Maurer | diann.maurer@uta.edu | Instructional Designer | 2022 |
| Cheryl Prachyl | cheryl.prachyl@uta.edu | Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting | 2022 |
| Amber Smallwood | amber.smallwood@uta.edu | Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Planning and Policy and Professor of Public Affairs and Planning | 2022 |
| Ivonne Audirac | audirac@uta.edu | Associate Professor of Public Affairs & Planning | 2022 |
| Paul Componation | componation@uta.edu | Associate Dean and Professor of Industrial Engineering | 2022 |
| Kathy Daniel | kdaniel@uta.edu | Associate Dean and Professor of Nursing | 2022 |
| Amir Farbin | afarbin@uta.edu | Professor of Physics | 2022 |
| Taylor Kessner | taylor.kessner@uta.edu | Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction | 2022 |
| Fernando Melero-Garcia | fernando.melerogarcia@uta.edu | Assistant Professor of Modern Languages | 2022 |
| Heather Philip | heather.philip@uta.edu | Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing | 2022 |
| Pete Smith | psmith@uta.edu | Chief Analytics Officer and Professor of Modern Languages | 2022 |
UT Dallas
| Travis Goode | Travis.Goode@utdallas.edu | Assistant Director of Public Services | 2023 |
| Richard Golden | golden@utdallas.edu | Professor of Cognitive Science, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2023 |
| Meg Flanigan | margaret.flanigan@utdallas.edu | Professor of Instruction, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Assistant Dean of Assessment and Curriculum | 2023 |
| James Harrington | James.Harrington@utdallas.edu | Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management | 2023 |
| Elizabeth Searing | Elizabeth.Searing@UTDallas.edu | Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management | 2023 |
| Katherine Brown | Katherine.Brown@utdallas.edu | Associate Professor of Instruction, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of BioEngineering | 2023 |
| Ben Porter | Ben.Porter@utdallas.edu | Associate Professor of Instruction, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of BioEngineering | 2023 |
| Penny Jiang | qxj130030@utdallas.edu | Program Manager, Naveen Jindal School of Management | 2023 |
| Julie Haworth | haworth@utdallas.edu | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Marketing, Director, BS Marketing, Naveen Jindal School of Management | 2023 |
| Magda Grohman | mggrohman@utdallas.edu | Associate Director/Lecturer | 2022 | |
| Sylena Measles | Sylena.Measles@utdallas.edu | Instructional Designer | 2022 | |
| Mark Rosen | mxr088000@utdallas.edu | Associate Dean | 2022 | |
| Roopa Vinay | roopa@utdallas.edu | eLearning Manager | 2022 | |
| Qin Fang | qfang@utdallas.edu | eLearning Associate Director | 2022 | |
| Mark McKinney | mark.mckinney@utdallas.edu | Associate Professor of Instruction | 2022 | |
| Debbie Pfister | dhpf@utdallas.edu | Research Assistant Professor | 2022 |
UT El Paso
| Rolando Nunez | jrnunez2@utep.edu | Director of MBA Programs, Woody L. Hunt College of Business | 2023 |
| Selfa Chew-Melendez | sachewsmithart@utep.edu | Associate Dean of Undegraduate Studies for the College of Liberal Arts | 2023 |
| Stacy Wagovich | sawagovich@utep.edu | Associate Dean, Academic and Fculty Affairs, College of Health Sciences | 2023 |
| Jesus Cicneros | jcisneros7@utep.edu | Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations | 2023 |
| Luisa Arvizu | lruizmendoza@utep.edu | Assistant Director, Center for Community Engagement | 2023 |
| Jeffrey Olimpo | jtolimpo@utep.edu | Director, Center for Faculty Leadership and Development | 2023 |
| Jennifer Lujan | jmlujan@utep.edu | Director, Center for Community Engagement | 2023 |
| Eric MacDonald | emac@utep.edu | Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering | 2023 |
| Zifeng Feng | zfeng@utep.edu | Assistant Professor of Finance | 2022 |
| Terry Quezada | tquezada2@utep.edu | Assistant Professor of Practice, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Director of online certificate in Technical and Professional Writing | 2022 |
| Lori Torres | lorit@utep.edu | Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Sciences | 2022 |
| Ximena Burgos | xburgos@utep.edu | Assistant Professor of Instruction in Public Health Sciences | 2022 |
| Eric Devos | hdevos@utep.edu | Professor of Economics and Finance, Associate Dean for Faculty, Research, and Graduate Programs | 2022 |
| Bruce Friedman | bdfriedman@utep.edu | Endowed Professor in Health Sciences | 2022 |
| Jorge Lopez | jorgelopez@utep.edu | Professor of Physics | 2022 |
| Faith Xie | fxie@utep.edu | Professor of Finance, Associate Dean College of Business | 2022 |
UT Permian Basin
| Ana Martinez-Catsam | martinez_a@utpb.edu | Professor, History Department Chair | 2023 |
| Evelyn Gordon | gordon_e@utpb.edu | Interim Academic Department Chair and Clinical Asistant Professor, Department of Human Performance | 2023 |
| Ahmed Kamel | kamel_a@utpb.edu | Associate Professor, College of Engineering | 2023 |
| Pinyarat Sirisomboonsuk | sirisomboonsuk_p@utpb.edu | Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business | 2023 |
| Maribea Merritt | merritt_m@utpb.edu | Director, Career Services | 2023 |
| Melissa Brumley | brumley_m@utpb.edu | Instructional Designer | 2022 |
| Scott Campbell | campbell_sc@utpb.edu | Instructional Designer | 2022 |
| Melissa Coulter | coulter_m@utpb.edu | Instructional Designer | 2022 |
| Lili Gai | gai_l@utpb.edu | Faculty | 2022 |
| Rekedda Williams | williams_r@utpb.edu | Instructional Designer | 2022 |
| Sebahattin Ziyanak | ziyanak_s@utpb.edu | Faculty | 2022 |
| Denise Dunne | dunne_d@utpb.edu | Faculty | 2022 |
UT Rio Grande Valley
| Aldo Salinas | aldo.salinas@utrgv.edu | Systems Analyst III, Office of Curriculum and Institutional Assessment | 2023 |
| Claudia Garica | claudia.garcia@utrgv.edu | Program Manager, Professional Education & Workforce Development | 2023 |
| Friederike Bruehoefener | friederike.bruehoefener@utrgv.edu | Interim Director, School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement, College of Liberal Arts | 2023 |
| Timothy Huber | timothy.huber@utrgv.edu | Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences, College of Sciences | 2023 |
| Patty Feria | teresa.feriaarroyo@utrgv.edu | Professor of Biology, College of Sciences | 2023 |
| Cristina Villalobos | cristina.villalobos@utrgv.edu | Director of the Center of Excellence in STEM Education | 2023 |
| Maysam Pournik | maysam.pournik@utrgv.edu | Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science | 2023 |
| Douglas Timmer | douglas.timmer@utrgv.edu | Professor in Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering | 2023 |
| Robert Jones | robert.jones@utrgv.edu | Professor and Interim Associate Chair for Information and Engineering Systems | 2023 |
| Jessica Sanchez | jessica.m.sanchez@utrgv.edu | Associate Director, Center for Online Learning and Teaching Technology | 2023 |
| Leticia Villarreal Sosa | leticia.villarrealsosa@utrgv.edu | Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, School of Social Work | 2023 |
| Nick Dimakis | nicholas.dimakis@utrgv.edu | Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Sciences | 2023 |
| Sanjeev Kumar | sj.kumar@utrgv.edu | Professor, Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science | 2023 |
| Art Brownlow | art.brownlow@utrgv.edu | Professor of Music and Senior Fellow for Academic Innovation | 2022 |
| Antonia Saldivar | antonia.saldivar01@utrgv.edu | Instructional Design Manager | 2022 |
| Colin Charlton | Colin.charlton@utrgv.edu | Professor/Chair Department of Writing & Language Studies | 2022 |
| Robert Dearth | Robert.dearth@utrgv.edu | Professor/Chair Department of Biology | 2022 |
| Ron Garza | Ron.garza@utrgv.edu | AVP Workforce & Economic Development | 2022 |
| Jason Mitchell | Jason.mitchell@utrgv.edu | Lecturer/Advising Coordinator School of Music | 2022 |
UT San Antonio
| Luca Pozzi | luca.pozzi@utsa.edu | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology | 2023 |
| Jill Fleuriet | jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu | Vice Provost for Honors Education | 2023 |
| Joo Ong | anson.ong@utsa.edu | Senior Associate Dean of Administration and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering | 2023 |
| Jill Ford | jill.ford@utsa.edu | Assistant Dean, Director of Student Success, College of Engineering and Integrated Design | 2023 |
| John Shaffer | john.shaffer@utsa.edu | Associate Director for Student Success & Professional Development | 2023 |
| Shakira Flores | john.shaffer@utsa.edu | Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics | 2023 |
| Jessica Avitia | jessica.avitia@utsa.edu | Assistant Director, Teaching and Learning Experiences | 2023 |
| Alexia Cormier | alexia.cormier@utsa.edu | Instructional Development Specialist | 2023 |
| Rachel Elliot | rachel.elliott@utsa.edu | Teaching & Learning Consultant | 2023 |
| Elliot Schraer | elliot.schraer@utsa.edu | Graduate Assistant | 2023 |
| Madhumita Joshi | madhumita.joshi@utsa.edu | Director of PostDoctoral Success, Graduate School | 2023 |
| Erica Wallace | erica.wallace@utsa.edu | Assistant Professor of Practice, Public Health | 2023 |
| Vittorio Marone | vittorio.marone@utsa.edu | Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Learning, Design, and Technology Program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching | 2023 |
| Sidury Christiansen | sidury.christiansen@utsa.edu | Associate Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the MA-TESL Program | 2023 |
| Andrea Aleman | andrea.aleman@utsa.edu | Assistant Professor of Practice, Political Science and Geography | 2023 |
| Sue Hum | sue.hum@utsa.edu | Professor, English | 2023 |
| Seok Kang | seok.kang@utsa.edu | Professor, Director of Digital Initiatives, Communication | 2023 |
| Ryan McPherson | ryan.mcpherson@utsa.edu | Associate Professor of Practice, Communication | 2023 |
| Debra Pena | debra.pena@utsa.edu | Director of the Writing Program, Associate Professor of Instruction | 2023 |
| Mayra Collins | Mayra.Collins@utsa.edu | Instructional Design Manager, Teaching, Learning & Digital Transformation | 2022 |
| Alberto Cordova | Alberto.Cordova@utsa.edu | Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology | 2022 |
| Terri Matiella | Terri.Matiella@utsa.edu | Assistant Dean for Remote Instruction, College of Sciences, Assistant Chair and Professor of Instruction, Department of Integrative Biology | 2022 |
| Jude Okpala | Jude.Okpala@utsa.edu | Professor of Instruction, Department of Philosophy and Classics | 2022 |
| Sara Oswalt | Sara.Oswalt@utsa.edu | Chair and Professor, Department of Public Health | 2022 |
| Marcela Ramirez | Marcela.Ramirez@utsa.edu | Associate Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning & Digital Transformation | 2022 |
| Elyse Ramirez | Elyse.Ramirez@utsa.edu | Lead Learning Experience Designer, Teaching, Learning & Digital Transformation | 2022 |
| Claudia Arcolin | Claudia.Arcolin@utsa.edu | Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Experiences, Teaching, Learning & Digital Transformation | 2022 |
| Jonathan Gutierrez | Jonathan.Gutierrez@utsa.edu | Associate Director of Digital Transformation Initiatives and Strategy, Teaching, Learning & Digital Transformation | 2022 |
| Rita Mitra | Rita.Mitra@utsa.edu | Associate Professor of Practice, Information Systems and Cyber Security | 2022 |
| Michael Rushforth | Michael.Rushforth@utsa.edu | Assistant Chair and Professor of Instruction, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures | 2022 |
UT Tyler
| Mark Sidey | msidey@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Instruction, Literature and Languages | 2023 |
| Tara Propper | tpropper@uttyler.edu | Assistant Professor of English, Literature and Languages | 2023 |
| Leah Velarde | lvelarde@uttyler.edu | Career Success Coach, College of Nursing and Health Sciences | 2023 |
| Miriam Rowntree | mrowntree@uttyler.edu | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Literature and Languages | 2023 |
| Matthew Kelly | mkelly@uttyler.edu | Assistant Professor of English, Literature and Languages | 2023 |
| June Oh | joh@uttyler.edu | Assistant Professor in English and Digital Studies, | 2023 |
| Mary Helen Fagan | mfagan@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Management | 2023 |
| Rosemary Cooper | rcooper@uttyler.edu | Executive Director of Career Success | 2023 |
| Travis Carter | travis.carter@uttyler.edu | IT Support Partner, UT Tyler School of Medicine | 2023 |
| Stephen Myers | stephenmyers@uttyler.edu | Instructional Designer II, Office of Digital Learning | 2023 |
| Kenneth Bryant | kbryant@uttyler.edu | Assistant Professor of Political Science | 2022 |
| Emily Davidson | edavidson@uttyler.edu | Digital Support Specialist | 2022 |
| Scott Dillingham | sdillingham@uttyler.edu | Director of Office of Digital Learning | 2022 |
| Richard (Rick) Helfers | rhelfers@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Criminal Justice | 2022 |
| Rochell McWhorter | rmcwhorter@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Human Resource Development | 2022 |
| Colin Snider | csnider@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of History | 2022 |
| Marcus Stadelmann | mstadelmann@uttyler.edu | Professor of Political Science; Chair of Political Science and History | 2022 |
| Danielle Bailey | dbailey@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Criminal Justice | 2022 |
| Jill (Nikki) Carter | jcarter@uttyler.edu | Lecturer of History | 2022 |
| Amy Hayes | ahayes@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Psychology; Chair of Psychology & Counseling | 2022 |
| Paul Roberts | proberts@uttyler.edu | 2022 | |
| Katherine (Katie) Stone | kstone@uttyler.edu | Director of QEP | 2022 |
| Jennifer Wooldridge | jwooldridge@uttyler.edu | Associate Professor of Criminal Justice | 2022 |
