Jack A. Kampmeier and the PLTL community have had a substantial impact on my career over the past 13 years.  I will chart my trajectory from a first-year graduate student petitioning to be allowed to serve as a PLTL facilitator in Jack's Organic Chemistry Workshops (when this had only ever been a role for undergraduates who had successfully completed the course the year prior) through my own gradual implementation of PLTL into the Organic curriculum at Hope College (a research-rich undergraduate liberal arts college) over the past seven years.  I will address the challenges unique to institutionalizing PLTL in a small liberal arts college, the incorporation of PLTL into an (eventually successful) NSF CAREER proposal, and the compromises we have had to make, even when funding for peer leaders was provided by NSF, to fit the model into the institutional framework at Hope College.

Organic chemistry PLTL implementation at Hope College: Jack Kampmeier impacts a career, from peer leader to the PUI professoriate

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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