Catherine Baumann

Catherine Baumann is a Senior Instructional Professor and Director of the University of Chicago Language Center (CLC). Since her appointment CLC has dramatically expanded its programs, receiving a grant in 2016 from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, “Transforming Language Instruction at the University of Chicago and Beyond,” and a year later co-founding the Language Pedagogy Innovation Initiative. Both grants support innovation in language pedagogy through an assessment-driven reverse design approach. Baumann consults for language programs in higher education on a variety of curricular and assessment-related issues.