Connie Mitchell

Director, Teaching and Learning Center

Connie Mitchell is an educator and academic leader with more than 28 years of experience in university teaching, curriculum innovation and institutional development. She is Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Prince Sultan University, where she has also served as Vice Dean of the Deanship of Quality Assurance and Development, Vice Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences and Chair of the English Department. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and received Education First’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2020. She chairs the board of the Arab Consortium of Teaching and Learning Centers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Ministry of Culture’s Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission in Saudi Arabia. Her research interests include academic writing, faculty development and sustainable education practice, and in 2023 she received a Sustainability Champion Award and Carbon Literacy certification.