Karle Flanagan
Director of Inclusive Data Science Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Karle Flanagan is the Director of Inclusive Data Science Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has taught introductory statistics to over 20,000 students at UIUC since Spring of 2014. In 2018, she was awarded the Illinois Student Government’s Teaching Excellence Award and in February of 2019, she also won the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Before working at UIUC, she taught mathematics at a small-town high school and worked as a statistician in the insurance industry. Along with teaching introductory statistics, she is currently working on course development for other advanced statistics courses and data science courses using Python. Her research interests include statistics and data science education, optimizing efficiency in office hours for large classes, and active learning methods for undergraduate statistics instruction.