Ellen Goldey is professor of biology at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. She earned her BS degree from The University of the South, TN, and PhD from Miami University, OH.
An advocate of liberal arts education, she is particularly interested in disciplinary integration that fosters interdisciplinary respect, understanding, and facility among students and faculty members. She has served as project director for Wofford’s NSF Division of Undergraduate Education grant, "Seeing the Big Picture: Linking the Sciences and the Humanities," a senior fellow for the NSF-funded program SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities), and an Executive Council member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). In June 2007, Ellen cohosted the 7th Biennial ASLE Conference at Wofford.
Twice named Wofford's "Faculty Member of the Year" (1998 & 2004), she was also named the "Outstanding Educator of the Year" by the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation (2002), and she is the first recipient of the Roger Milliken Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Science (2004). In addition to being a Teagle scholar, she is corecipient of a collaborative, four-institution grant from the Teagle Foundation to assess the value-added outcomes of integrative programs.