The Teaching Center is located in the Jack C Massey Center, 303C. Please feel free to call us at 615.460.5423 or email us by using the links below.
Mike Pinter, Director
Mike Pinter, Professor of Mathematics, previously served as Director of Belmont's Teaching Center from 2003 to 2006. Since coming to Belmont in 1989, Mike has held various roles in addition to faculty roles; in particular, Mike has served as associate dean for the School of Sciences and interim dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. He has participated in many Teaching Center events since the Teaching Center's beginning in 1994, including facilitating workshops and lunch discussions. Mike enjoys working with faculty at all career stages and has served as mentor in several capacities, including as director of the Mentoring for Mission program when it was offered at Belmont. Mike regularly offers presentations about teaching and learning at mathematics meetings and at the Lilly Conference on College Teaching. His favorite courses to teach include Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, Analytics: Math Models (for students in Belmont's Honors Program), Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning (in a learning community with a psychology course), and First-Year Seminar (with a focus on limitations).
Jayme Yeo, Assistant Director
Jayme Yeo (Ph.D, Rice University) is an Associate Professor in English. Her work focuses on the affective, political, and religious dimensions of discourse communities in the medieval and early modern period. Her current project applies these interests to regional adaptations of Shakespeare in the U.S. Her research has inspired topical courses that include Shakespeare and justice as well as poetry and activism. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as the Folger Shakespeare Library, and her work has appeared in Exemplaria, Teaching Religion and Theology, Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, and Literature and Theology.
Nanci Alsup, Program Manager
Nanci has been a part of the Belmont community since 1999 and has served the majority of her time in the Teaching Center. She has served on various university committees, enjoys mentoring students and served with university ministries with mission trips and is passionate about service projects. She states it is a privilege to be a part of the success and mission of Belmont University. Surrounded by a caring community, she enjoys working with faculty seeing firsthand how they value the calling of teaching and the wellbeing/success of their students.
Nanci completed a Bachelor of Arts in Management and Human Relations at Trevecca Nazarene University in 2004 and a Masters of Education in Organizational Leadership and Communication in 2009.