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Teaching & Learning Center (TLC)
Director for Graduate Student & Postdoc Professional Development
Faculty
McHenry Library
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Teaching & Learning Center
Kendra Dority (she/her) is the Director for Graduate Student & Postdoc Professional Development at the Teaching & Learning Center (TLC). In this role, she co-leads professional development programs for graduate students and postdocs in their educator roles, including as Teaching Assistants (TAs), Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs), and research mentors. These programs seek to uplift the strengths and leadership of grads and postdocs, while centering research-based approaches to equity-minded course design and teaching practices that center student learning and cultural wealth. She also works with faculty on mentorship of graduate students and postdocs, collaborating with TAs on teaching teams, and graduate-level teaching.
Kendra has been a member of the UC Santa Cruz teaching community since 2009, having served as a TA and GSI in the Literature department and a Lecturer at Porter College before joining the campus teaching center in 2017. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz.
UCSC Outstanding Staff Award, 2024
Chair, University of California Centers for Teaching & Learning (UC-CTL) Consortium, 2023-2024
Vice Chair, University of California Centers for Teaching & Learning (UC-CTL) Consortium, 2022-23
UCSC Academic Affairs Division Antiracism & Equity Committee, 2020-2022
UCSC Steck Family Prize for Dissertation Excellence Campus Award, 2017
UCSC The Humanities Institute and UCHRI Public Scholar, 2016
UCSC The Humanities Institute Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2015-2016
UCSC Graduate Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2012-2013
GRAD 215: Equitable Course Design for GSIs
Graduate Pedagogy Fellows
Equity-Minded Mentoring (for grads & postdocs)
Preparing Your Teaching Statement & Portfolio (for grads & postdocs)
Teaching as an Ethical Practice: A Guide for Teaching Assistants
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