Tine Reimers, Executive Director, CU-ADVANCE Center

Christine “Tine” Reimers currently works as Executive Director for the NSF-funded ADVANCE Center at Cornell University. The CU-ADVANCE program serves to recruit, retain and promote women faculty in the sciences, social sciences and engineering. She provides resources on programming, uses NSF indicator data and research being done on gender and climate to generate reports to NSF and disseminate results to the University community and collects and disseminates best practices developed at both at Cornell University and elsewhere such that the ADVANCE Center becomes a resource on recruitment, retention and promotion of women in the sciences and engineering.

Tine has taught Humanities, Writing and Rhetoric, World Literature, French and Philosophy in a variety of settings, from large American Research I Universities, to small colleges, to universities in France and Japan.  Her more than 20 years of classroom experience teaching students from diverse backgrounds, combined with 15 years of faculty development experience at UNC-Chapel Hill, Indiana University-Bloomington, and the University of Texas at El Paso have provided the opportunity to deepen her understanding and communication of the strategies best suited for effective learning in higher education. She has worked with faculty and graduate students from all disciplines to enhance course design that emphasizes discovery learning and student inquiry, and to develop strategies for living an integrated and balanced academic life.  Her workshops are designed for active engagement of the participants, modeling and putting into practice the ideas she is teaching, whether they be critical thinking, using teamwork in the classroom, assessment of student learning outcomes or strategies for faculty leadership and professional success.

Tine earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in French from the University of Vermont and her Masters and PhD degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.