IUPUI Celebrates Career of Sharon Hamilton
The Office of Academic Affairs and the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI are hosting a celebration of the exemplary career of Sharon Hamilton from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. May 15 in the University Place Conference Center ballroom.
Hamilton is currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of the Faculties, and Chancellor's Professor of English at IUPUI. After serving as founding director of the IUPUI institutional portfolio, she has, until recently, directed the project team developing the conceptual design and implementation process for student electronic portfolios that document both improvement and achievement in student learning. Additionally, Hamilton is a Carnegie Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. For the past several years, she has played a leadership role on campus for faculty development related to the assessment of teaching and learning, and most specifically our campus-level learning outcomes, our Principles of Undergraduate Learning.
Prior to assuming her instructional and administrative responsibilities at IUPUI in 1987, Hamilton taught for seventeen years in the public school system in Manitoba, beginning in a one-room eight-grade country schoolhouse on the windswept prairies, and concluding her public school experience as Chair of an English Department in a suburban high school.
Hamilton has written several journal articles and book chapters about writing across the curriculum, collaborative learning, literacy, and portfolios. Her book-length publications include Collaborative Learning in the Arts, Sciences, and Professional Schools, Collaborative Learning in Higher Education: Underlying Processes and Effective Techniques, Writing in the Arts, Sciences, and Professional Schools and My Name's Not Susie: A Life Transformed by Literacy. She has also written a play, My Brother Was My Mother's Only Child, and has just completed an edited collection: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at IUPUI.
Hamilton received her baccalaureate degree from the University of Winnipeg, her B. Ed. and M. Ed. from the University of Manitoba, and her Ph. D. in language and literature from the Institute of Education at London University, England.
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