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 Excellent Teaching & Learning

Key Elements And Contributors

1. Provide educational experiences, led by expert instructors, grounded in best-practices in teaching and the science of learning

  • Academic Deans
  • Academic faculty
  • Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

2. Commit to becoming a community of learning experts, with an understanding of how we help students internalize, embrace, and utilize complex ideas, and supported by processes that allow us to collect input directly from our students.

  • Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

3. Schedule first-year experience and gateway courses – ideally led by FT faculty – that forge the strong foundation of knowledge, skills, and efficacy needed to succeed on the degree path ahead.

  • Academic Deans
  • Academic faculty

4. Offer capstone experiences that help students synthesize lessons from multiple points in their college journey and prepare them for a career or graduate program

  • Academic Deans
  • Academic faculty

5. Where possible, develop curricula that can be delivered effectively both online and in-person to give heavily obligated students a choice in their degree pathway

  • Academic Deans/Chairs
  • Office of the Provost

6. Offer professional development opportunities and internal grants supporting innovation that help instructors maximize teaching effectiveness and improve their understanding of student learning

  • Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
  • Academic Deans
  • Office of the Provost

7. Maintain policies and practices that encourage the recruitment of superb instructors (hiring) and incentivize teaching excellence (annual evaluation, P&T)

  • Academic Deans
  • Office of the Provost