Who is Tim?
Tim McMahon, Ph.D. CoDaC Curriculum Transformation Specialist
Tim McMahon is a Curriculum Transformation Specialist in the Center on Diversity and Community at the University of Oregon. In this role, he works with current and future faculty on issues related to teaching and diversity. Before coming to Oregon, Tim taught graduate and undergraduate classes at Western Illinois University and has also worked in student affairs at different universities in Illinois, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin. Among his professional interests are leadership development, chaos and systems theory, and issues related to diversity and he is a co-author (with Susan Komives and Nance Lucas) of Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want To Make A Difference.
Colleagues he worked with at Washington State University in the mid-1980s initially sparked Tim’s interest in diversity-related issues. This interest developed into well-received national conference presentations on such concepts as cultural competence, multicultural organizational development, and identity development theory, which lead to him teaching undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on diversity issues and presenting at the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education. When asked why diversity issues are of interest to “an old white guy”, Tim replied, “Because they are interesting, important, and represent the future.”
Tim loves the Chicago Cubs, all things Apple, Diet Pepsis, the music of Bruce Springsteen, and photographing migratory waterfowl. He is very interested in the Lewis and Clark Expedition—having driven the approximate route that the Corps of Discovery took from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and floated the White Cliffs area of the Upper Missouri River.
What are his tips?
Tim’s Tips are timely articles related to issues of diversity and higher education that he has found while perusing various on-line publications. They are not meant to be a complete listing of all that is happening, but more of a selection of thought-provoking items that might prove useful to someone interested in these topics. In general he has copied the first paragraph along with a link to the entire article.