Neil Haave, PhD, BSc (honours)

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Professor Emeritus, Augustana Campus

Email: nhaave@ualberta.ca

Overview

About

Neil Haave (PhD, University of British Columbia) taught molecular cell biology and biochemistry at the Augustana Campus from 1990 to 2025, where he served as Chair of Science and Associate Dean. Neil is a recipient of ACUBE's Excellence in Teaching Award, the UofA's Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and McCalla Professorship, and Augustana's Teaching Leadership Award and Teaching Faculty Award for the Support of Information Literacy. His research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) with publications on biology curricula, e-portfolios, undergraduate research, and learning philosophies. His involvement with SoTL has included editing Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, co-chairing the Festival of Teaching steering committee, and chairing the Teaching Professor Conference Advisory Board. He is currently co-executive editor of College Teaching. Many of his classes involved active learning using some version of team-based learning. Neil is interested in developing scholarly approaches to teaching, which includes researching our educational practices in light of the published literature on teaching and learning in higher education.

Featured Publications

Dismantling Disciplinary Silos: A Faculty Learning Community Facilitates Interdisciplinary Teaching Development

Cosette B. Lemelin, Cole D. Gross, Renette Bertholet, Sheryl Gares, Mark Hall, Hani Henein, Valentina Kozlova, Michelle Spila, Valentin (Tino) Villatoro, & Neil Haave

Journal of Faculty Development. 2023 May; 37 (2):51–60

Mitigating student resistance to active learning by constructing resilient classrooms

Cosette Lemelin, Cole D. Gross, Renette Bertholet, Sheryl Gares, Mark Hall, Hani Henein, Valentina Kozlova, Michelle Spila, Valentin Villatoro and Neil Haave

Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching. 2021 December; 47 (2):3-9