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Dr. Rod McRae

Vice Provost of Education Outreach
Office of the Provost

Phone: 478.471.2989
Website: https://www.mga.edu/provost/index.php

Locations:
  • Macon - Teacher Education Building (TEB) - 207
Office Hours: If not reachable by phone, please send me an email instead.
Education: Ed.D. in School Improvement – University of West Georgia, April 2021
M.A. in English (with Distinction) – University of West Georgia, May 2010
B.A. in English (Summa Cum Laude) – University of West Georgia, May 2004
CV: Service to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (External Peer-Reviewing Activities):
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Learning Technology Implementation to Address 21st-Century Skills: The Zimbabwean Higher Education Context. (2024). Chapter in Insights into International Higher Education Leadership and the Skills Gap[i/].
Personality and UDL in Management Education. (2022). Article for Organization Management Journal[i/].
The Build and Bond: A Team Exercise. (2022). Article for [i/Organization Management Journal[i/].
Professional Experience: Vice Provost for Educational Outreach, Division of Academic Affairs, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, Jul. 2025–present
Associate Professor of Education, School of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, Jul. 2025–present
Associate Provost for Academic Success, Division of Academic Affairs, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, Jan. 2024–Jun. 2025
Assistant Professor of Education, School of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, Aug. 2023–Jun. 2025
Assistant Provost for Faculty Development, Division of Academic Affairs, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, Feb. 2022–Dec. 2023
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Jan. 2019–Jan. 2022
Lecturer of English, Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Aug. 2014–Jan. 2022
Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Jul. 2016–Dec. 2018
QEP Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Jul. 2015–Dec. 2017
Online Instructor of English, eCore, University System of Georgia, Jan. 2015–Jul. 2016
Instructor of English, Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Aug. 2010–Jul. 2014
Professional Affiliations: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society
Organizations: Professional and Organizational Development Network
Publications: McRae, R., Green, K.B., & Brandenburg, J. (2022). TILTing assignments in in-major undergraduate courses. In D. Akella, L. Paudel, N. Wickramage, M. Rogers, & A. Gibson (Eds.), Integrating Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT): An Effective Tool for Providing Equitable Opportunity in Higher Education[i/]. IGI Global.
Bishop, J., Cofer, J., Domizi, D., McRae, R., & Smitherman, R. (2022). Collaborative faculty development. In O. Johnson Neisler (Ed.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Academic Professional Development Centers[i/]. Palgrave MacMillan.
McRae, R. (2017). An Australian hybridity of dialect and didactics in Les Murray’s Subhuman Redneck Poems. In N. Birns, N. Moore, & S. Shieff (Eds.), Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature[/]. Modern Language Association of America.


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