Mollie Hand
LeaRN Programs
Manager, First Year Experience, FIGs, Summer Bridge
Biography
Mollie Hand manages three first-year student programs for the Learning Resource Network: First Year Experience (FYE), First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs), and the Summer Bridge program. In her role within LeaRN, Mollie strives to train high quality lecturers of the FYE class, STEP 1102 and the nontrad/transfer student class, STEP 3102. The highlight of Mollie's role is teaching.
Education
M.A. Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder
BA German, University of Wyoming
Select Awards
Pete Simpson Golden Gloves Award 2024
Unsung Hero Full-Time Staff Award, 2017 and 2024
Engagement and Outreach Mini Grant for Suffrage Event 2019
Engaged Faculty Learning Community 2016-2017
Using Transition Skills in FYS Learning Community 2016-2017
SLCE Mini-Grant Recipient for Service Learning in the Classroom Fall 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Innovation in Teaching – 2012 State of Wyoming Adult Education Award
2011 Golden Apple Mini Grant Award “International Students Discover Wyoming through Service Learning” Laramie County Community College
Recent and Upcoming Courses
First Year Experience: Create Your UW (Foodies edition)
First Year Experience: Create Your UW (Gender Inclusivity)
Language and Food Human Culture Course
First Year Seminar: Language of Food
Presentations and Publications
"First Year Student Success" 2025-02-14 Case Studies and Scholarly Blogs in Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning.
"Service-Learning Inspires Belongingness: Seven Steps to Combat Student Homesickness“ 2024, chapter in The First Year Experience: Strategies for Student Success in Higher Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Book Review: The Re-Attribution of the British Renaissance Corpus by Anna Faktorovich, 2023-09, Vol 77 (2) p. 218-219. Rocky Mountain Review
Demonstrating the Library's Value in the First Year Experience” with Michelle Green. Conference on the First-Year Experience (February 2020, Washington DC)
“Seeking Collaboration in Transition” with April French and Michelle Green. COWY ACADA Drive-in Conference (March 2019, Cheyenne, WY)
“Embodying the Number Line” 2015 Adult Numeracy Network Practitioner Research Grant (2015 Workshop, CoABE Denver, CO)
“Math through Music: How Rhythm Teaches Numeracy” 2013 CAEPA Presentation, Denver, CO
“Implementing Service Learning into the ESOL Classroom” 2011 WyoTESOL Presentation, Cody, WY
“Culturally Responsive Teaching” 2010 CoTESOL Presentation, Denver, CO
“Learning English by Helping Others: Implementing Service Learning into the ESOL Classroom” The Journal for Civic Commitment, 12th Issue, 2009
