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.
2007-2009 Goals and Objectives
Goal:
Promote the Center as a primary resource for teaching excellence.
Objectives:
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Maintain a
faculty advisory council with representatives from each college,
full-time and adjunct faculty, department chairs and Deans.
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Implement a
promotion and marketing strategy designed to use a variety of
methods to reach a majority of faculty.
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Maintain an
inventory of faculty development resources.
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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:
Develop, promote,
and provide learning, teaching, and technology opportunities for
faculty.
Objectives:
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Plan and
implement annual “First Tuesday” seminar series that highlights
effective pedagogies and technologies.
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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.
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Plan and
implement a “Teaching Excellence” workshop series that provides
practical opportunities for the application of learning,
teaching and technology pedagogies.
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Identify and
support two faculty fellows per academic year.
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Co-Host the
annual ShareFair to highlight innovative pedagogical and
technological activities.
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Extend the
Center’s reach into supporting development opportunities for
graduate students.
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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:
Foster a culture
to promote collaboration, collegiality, and mentoring to enhance the
scholarship and practice of teaching to impact learning.
Objectives:
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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.
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Promote and
encourage interdisciplinary activities in teaching and research.
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Establish a
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) program of research
and research support.
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Identify and
support one SoTL faculty fellow per academic year.
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Promote
informal dialogues between faculty members on good teaching.
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Support one
graduate research assistant per academic year.
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