Mission Statement

Mission Statement

"The Center will create a community of faculty who develop, improve and integrate creative and effective use of appropriate pedagogy and technologies to enhance student learning."

2009-2010 Goals and Objectives

Goal:  To promote the Center as a primary resource for teaching excellence.

Objectives:
- Maintain a faculty advisory council with representatives from each college, full-time and adjunct faculty, department chairs and Deans.
- Implement a promotion and marketing strategy designed to use a variety of methods to reach a majority of faculty.
- Maintain an inventory of faculty development resources.
- Assess the Center’s impact on learning and teaching via the creative and effective integration of appropriate pedagogies and technologies through a variety of assessment techniques.

Goal:  To develop, promote, and provide learning, teaching, and technology opportunities for faculty.

Objectives:
- Plan and implement annual “First Tuesday” seminar series that highlights effective pedagogies and technologies.
- Plan and Implement a “Showcase” seminar series on innovative pedagogies and technologies that allows for collaboration with various campus offices and committees to promote faculty development.
- Plan and implement a “Teaching Excellence” workshop series that provides practical opportunities for the application of learning, teaching and technology pedagogies.
- Identify and support two faculty fellows per academic year.
- Co-Host the annual ShareFair to highlight innovative pedagogical and technological activities.
- Extend the Center’s reach into supporting development opportunities for graduate students.
- Develop strategies to encourage greater numbers of faculty to use the Center as an informal conversation space for faculty engaged in learning, teaching and using technology dialogues.

Goal:  To foster a culture to promote collaboration, collegiality, and mentoring to enhance the scholarship and practice of teaching to impact learning.

Objectives:
- Review the Faculty Mentoring Program to insure its adaptation to continuing best practices and to determine its potential as a foundation for establishing a Faculty Learning Community.
- Promote and encourage interdisciplinary activities in teaching and research.
- Establish a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) program of research and research support.
- Identify and support one SoTL faculty fellow per academic year.
- Promote informal dialogues between faculty members on good teaching.
- Support one graduate research assistant per academic year.