Remember Faculty Development Day is on May 23rd

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invites you to the Spring 2013 Faculty Development Day on Thursday, May 23rd beginning with breakfast at 8. For more info click here. 

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to promote engagement and effective teaching that cultivates significant student learning. The CTL fosters a campus culture that values diversity of learning, teaching, and delivery as well as supports faculty in the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning through grant opportunities and ongoing faculty development.

To achieve this mission, the CTL works:

• To enhance the quality of student learning via faculty development.


• To offer physical and virtual spaces for faculty collaboration on teaching and learning.


• To support and enhance the quality and quantity of scholarship.


• To develop cross-university teaching circles and dialogues to examine best practices, including the emerging scholarship on teaching and learning collaborations.


• To encourage collegiality through mentoring, one-on-one counseling, and instructional workshops.


• To provide comprehensive faculty development that addresses faculty needs from new faculty orientation through early-career, mid-career and late-career support.


• To build on and facilitate existing faculty development initiatives in learning outcomes assessment, diversity integration, and the uses of academic technology in teaching and learning.


• To enable faculty to adopt new pedagogical strategies for face-to-face and online teaching.


• To foster faculty culture dedicated to ongoing scholarship and creative activity.