Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Mission

We celebrate faculty accomplishments, while also working to enhance and expand faculty resources to promote scholarly activities, academic interests, faculty development, and community engagement.

Our Purpose

Through our efforts, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) works to:

  • Promote the integration of innovative trends in teaching and learning to improve student achievement and student engagement
  • Encourage the sharing of creative and innovative ideas
  • Foster collaborative efforts in promoting instructional best practices
  • Create focused Faculty Learning Communities
  • Provide workshops, seminars, continuing education to promote faculty collaboration

Our Tactics

  1. Encourage faculty collaboration and sharing of best practices
  2. Develop new initiatives that foster teaching excellence, integrated learning and service learning
  3. Enhance instructional preparedness to address the needs of the differential learner
  4. Develop regularly scheduled forums or venues for the sharing of teaching-related research
  5. Develop a University, peer-reviewed journal
  6. Provide training in grants acquisition
  7. Collaborate with the Office of Sponsored Research to identify appropriate academic-specific external funding
  8. Develop a list of faculty members who can serve as resources for the identification, application and acquisition of grants

 

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Workshops and Events

We post all of our events here. Currently, there are no events scheduled. 

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We invite you to give feedback on workshops you attend. Your feedback helps us to improve our content and services. Please fill the brief survey and let us know your thoughts.

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Present a Workshop Topic

Do you have a topic you'd like to share? Submit your request, and we'll consider it for an upcoming faculty seminar!

Needs Assessment Survey

We invite faculty to participate in a brief survey on faculty development needs. Email completed surveys to CETL.