• Title: Executive Director of STEP & Professor
• Phone: 614-247-7837
• Email: whittington.1@osu.edu

Dr. M. Susie Whittington serves as Executive Director of Academic Enrichment and the Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP). She taught Methods of Teaching for 25 years before coming to the Office of Academic Affairs. She created and taught a university gen ed course, Toward Cultural Proficiency, and continues to teach an online Advanced Methods of Teaching course. For more than 25 years, she directed a research project, “Improving the Cognitive Capacity of Students by Fully Engaging Professors in the Teaching and Learning Process”. Dr. Whittington is the junior author of Methods of Teaching Agriculture. Her teaching has been awarded the USDA National Teaching Excellence Award. She received The Josephine Sitterle Failer Award for Outstanding Service to Students by The Ohio State University Alumni Association. She is a co-advisor to Ohio Staters, Inc. Susie was bestowed the honorific title of Distinguished Professor by her college.