Melissa Bowles-Terry

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Science Librarian

Former Director, UNLV Faculty Center

Expertise: Teaching and learning, Assessment of student learning, Undergraduate research

Biography

Melissa Bowles-Terry, a tenured member of the library faculty, is a professor and library liaison to the College of Sciences.

She formerly served as director of the UNLV Faculty Center, where she coordinated programming to support faculty teaching, research, and career development. Previous to that, she was head of educational initiatives at the UNLV Libraries, where she provided leadership for the libraries' educational role on campus, including faculty development initiatives related to teaching research skills, offering library support for online learning, and assessing student learning in the library.

Bowles-Terry has published in major library journals and presented at conferences on the topics of assessment of student learning and information literacy instruction. She is a national leader in scholarship related to the impact of libraries on student success and is a member of the faculty of a national training program sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries for librarians who teach and assess student learning.

Prior to her career in librarianship, she taught writing at Utah State University and was instruction and assessment coordinator at University of Wyoming Libraries.

Education

M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A., English Literature, Utah State University
B.A., English Literature, Utah State University

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Melissa Bowles-Terry In The News

UNLV will launch a pilot program for fall semester called “RebelFlex” where instructors will teach in-person and remote students simultaneously for some classes.

UNLV says it wants to test a new program that would let instructors teach in-person and remote classes simultaneously. Called "RebelFlex," the program will be tested in some courses during the upcoming fall semester, UNLV said in a news release.

American Library Association

The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association has chosen Melissa Bowles-Terry, associate director of the Faculty Center at the ��ҳ| �鶹��ýӳ��, as the 2020 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award. The Librarian Recognition Award was created to recognize an individual’s contribution to the development, advancement and support of information literacy and instruction.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

When a Stanford University report last month proclaimed that many students could not detect fake or misleading information online, the findings caused a stir.