DONALD GILLIAN-DANIEL, PHD

Director of Inclusive Teaching Programming

Collaborative Principal Investigator

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Don Gillian-Daniel engages faculty and staff in learning how to teach more equitably and inclusively by using an applied improvisational approach to challenge participants to practice a response, in real time. For over a decade he has developed and taught face-to-face and synchronous online graduate courses. In addition, he has led sessions about inclusive teaching at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, addressed implicit bias in the college classroom for National Science Foundation-funded initiatives, and consulted with national non-profits like the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Don was an Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning, and Institutional Administrative Leader for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network. He now directs Inclusive Teaching Programming through the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Collaborative for Advancing Learning & Teaching, is co-lead of the NSF Aspire Alliance’s National Change Team and is co-PI of the NSF-funded Inclusive STEM Teaching Project.