Center for Teaching Excellence

The CTE has four staff members who work closely with the Faculty Advisory Committee to design and implement the programs and services of the CTE. 

David Mengel

David Mengel, PhD
CTE Faculty Director and Chair of the CTE Faculty Advisory Committee

An Associate Professor of History whose research focuses on medieval Central Europe, David has been at Xavier since 2003. He teaches a range of courses on European history, such as

  Mary Kochlefl

Mary Kochlefl, PhD
CTE Administrative Director

At Xavier since 1995, Mary has been director for grant services since 2000. In her prior role as coordinator for grant services and professional development, Mary was responsible for faculty development programming.

Barbarians, Monks & Vikings; Cathedrals, Crusaders & Colleges; A History of Communication Technologies; and the Black Death. He has received a Wheeler grant as well as support from the Politics, Philosophy & the Public Honors program for his course, Agora to Piazza. The recipient of British Marshall, Fulbright, ACLS and other national fellowships, David studied English literature at Vanderbilt (BA), ecclesiastical history at Cambridge (MPhil) and medieval studies (MMS and PhD) at Notre Dame, where he was also a graduate associate at the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning.   In addition to her full-time administrative roles, Mary has taught courses, including Literature and the Moral Imagination, Freshman Composition, and Studies in Fiction, as an adjunct faculty member in Xavier’s English Department. Mary earned her undergraduate degree in English from Columbia University and her MA and PhD in English from Indiana University. She completed minors in religion in both of her undergraduate and graduate programs.

 

Dana Tindall

Dana Tindall

 

In addition to his role with the CTE, Dana is the Associate Director for Learning Environments. He has been at Xavier for 15 years.

     
Dana earned degrees in Art from Austin College in Sherman Texas, the University of Dallas. He also earned a certificate in Distance Education from Indiana University. He is currently working on a doctorate in education (EdD) with specialization in Instructional Design and Technology. Dana is also a working and exhibiting artist, and has taught Drawing and The Art Experience as an adjunct faculty member in Xavier's Art Department since 2002.