Adriana Streifer

Adriana Streifer joined the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) in 2016. In her role as an Associate Director, she runs the CTE's course design programs - the Course Design Institute and the online program, c3Design - which guide instructors to design transformative, inspiring courses through the process of backward and integrated design. Additionally, she directs Tomorrow's Professors Today, a teaching certificate program for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars that supports them in developing the teaching skills and reflective capacities they will need to succeed in their current roles and in their future faculty careers. Adriana also mentors graduate students through UVA's PhD Plus internship program, and enjoys the opportunity to work closely with graduate students who are exploring careers in educational development. Previously, Adriana ran the CTE's teaching consultation services, in which capacity she developed consultation practices and training sessions consistent with inclusive and growth-oriented pedagogical principles.

Adriana's primary scholarly interest is grading, with a particular emphasis on alternative grading methods. She explores the connection between instructors' pedagogical values and grading scheme design, how alternative grading schemes promote learning, how students perceive alternative grading, and how alternative grading constitutes an inclusive pedagogical practice that can address structural inequities in higher education. She has published extensively on these and other topics in venues such as To Improve the Academy, College Teaching, and the Journal of Faculty Development.

Beyond her work at UVA, Adriana contributes nationally to the field of educational development through service and leadership roles in the POD Network. She has served as the chair of the Awards Committee, and as a member of POD Network's Core committee (equivalent to the board of directors), and the Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Scholar, and Professional Student Special Interest Group (GPPD SIG). She currently serves on POD's Membership and Finance committees.

Adriana's teaching interests draw on both her expertise as an educational developer and her academic background in English literature. She teaches pedagogy seminars for graduate and undergraduate students, undergraduate writing-intensive courses, and introductions to the English major focused on Renaissance English drama and women in drama.