Dr.
Ken Bain
Vice Provost for Instruction and Director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Montclair
State University in Montclair, New Jersey.
Ken Bain serves as the Vice President for Instruction and Director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Monclair State University. He has been the founding director of four teaching and learning centers across the country—the Center for Teaching Excellence at New York University, the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, and the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Montclair State University.
A professor of History, Dr. Bain has published on the history of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. One of his most prominent works is March to Zion: United States Policy and the Founding of Israel. More recently, his scholarship in the areas of teaching and learning has earned him international recognition. His book What the Best College Teachers Do documents the results of his fifteen-year study of teaching practices in over one hundred colleges across the country. In it, he recognizes that good teaching requires understanding how students learn and that teaching is both an “intellectual creation and a performing art” (174). In 2004, What the Best College Teachers Do was awarded the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society.
Dr. Bain has also received awards from the Harry S Truman Library, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the International Studies Association. He has also won four major teaching awards, including a teacher-of-the-year award, faculty nomination for the Minnie Piper Foundation Award for outstanding college teacher in Texas in 1980 and 1981, and Honors Professor of the Year Awards in 1985 and 1986.
Information courtesy of the Teaching and Learning Center at Montclair State University.
http://www.montclair.edu/center/bain.html
