Center for Teaching & Learning

Our mission is to foster a culture of excellence in teaching and learning by assisting faculty with their scholarship of teaching, by acting as a resource center for new teaching techniques and programs, and by supporting the University in becoming a community of lifelong learners. To accomplish this mission, we provide both basic and advanced information about the teaching/learning process through an array of formats and methods. We are served by an advisory committee that includes eleven faculty from across campus, representing each academic college, the John Vaughan Library, and the College of Optometry.

The Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee recommends the following conceptual framework: Help faculty use what is now known about student learning. Help faculty assess student learning outcomes. Operate in a cost-effective manner, because varying pedagogies and technologies increasingly differ in cost, and because faculty have more power than ever to increase or decrease cost and productivity. Be consonant with faculty values and cultures. Build upon what is known about faculty (adult) learning. Build upon the benefits to faculty. Help faculty integrate old and new technologies to make possible new pedagogies, new arrangements of time and space, and new ways of enhancing both student learning and faculty-student productivity.