Scholar-In-Residence Spring 2007

Through the identification of a scholar with expertise in areas appropriate to the ministry of LCM, the Scholar-In-Residence program is designed to forge yet another kind of link between the ministry and its community with the purpose of enriching the spiritual and intellectual components of the ministry.

We are pleased to introduce Dr. William M. Timpson, as our Scholar in Residence for spring 2007. Dr. Timpson was selected by the LCM Board of Directors to serve in this capacity; and he was nominated by Andrea Doerr, who was in an Honors Seminar with him on the topic of "Peacemaking". We are grateful to Professor Timpson for accepting this appointment, and we express our thanks to him for his willingness to share his expertise with us throughout the spring semester.

William M. Timpson is a professor in the School of Education at Colorado State University. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in American History from Harvard University, Bill went on to teach junior and senior high school in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio before completing a doctoral degree in educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While continuing to work with teachers and staff at various levels of schooling, he has written extensively on postsecondary instruction and innovation. Along with numerous articles, chapters and grants, he has written or co-authored eleven books including several that address issues of diversity, sustainability, peace and reconciliation: 147 Tips for Teaching Sustainability (2006), 147 Tips for Teaching Diversity (2005), Teaching Diversity (2003), Teaching and Learning Peace (2002), Teaching and Performing (2002), Stepping Up: College Learning and Community for a Sustainable Future (2001), Metateaching and the Instructional Map (1999), Concepts and Choices for Teaching (1996) and Action Learning: Experience and Promise (1995). In 2006 he served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist on peace and reconciliation studies at the UNESCO Centre in Northern Ireland. With interest from the UNESCO and the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance, Bill is currently working on a new book tentatively titled, From Battleground to Common Ground: Stories of Conflict, Reconciliation and Civic Renewal, and it is planned for a 2007 release. In his work, Timpson draws on extensive experiences abroad including recent travels to Guatemala in 2004, Northern Ireland in 2003, Eastern Europe in 2002, South Africa, Nepal and India in 2001 and two years of work in Australia (1993-1995).