Rate My Professor Kadian Callahan

Callahan’s research focuses on strategies to improve teaching and learning in undergraduate science and mathematics courses and programs, including active learning and inclusive practices, as well as analyzing STEM institutional change efforts and the role of student voice in driving programmatic, policy, and structural transformations. Her key publications include “Strand Committees and Course Coordination: Complementary Structures to Drive Evidence-Based Improvements” (PRIMUS, 2024, co-authored with Vandenbussche et al.), “Improving teaching and learning: Science and Mathematics Faculty Reflections on Teaching and Learning across Time” (International Journal for Academic Development, 2021), “Student Leaders as Agents of Change” (Transforming Institutions: Accelerating Systemic Change in Higher Education, 2020), and “Academic-centered peer interactions and retention in undergraduate mathematics programs” (Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2008). She has secured significant funding as PI or co-PI, including NSF grants for ACT UP Math ($174,054, 2022-2025), SEMINAL ($93,249, 2018-2020), and conferences, as well as the HHMI KSU Inclusive Excellence Initiative ($1,000,000, 2018-2025). Nationally, she co-leads the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN), mentors in the AAC&U STEM Leadership Institute, and participates in Project EMBER. Selected as a 2016 Governor’s Teaching Fellow, she facilitates faculty learning communities and course transformation institutes.