The Professor Magda Vasillov
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
Mission:
The Center is dedicated to promoting and supporting teaching and learning at all levels. The Center seeks to create an enhanced and effective learning environment in which students and faculty from diverse backgrounds all learn and excel. The Center believes that learning is a lifelong process and that teachers are learners, too. Through open and ongoing dialogue and collaborative efforts designed to improve student learning, the Center provides teachers with the resources and opportunities that support excellence in teaching. This website was developed to serve as a clearing house of information about teaching and learning.
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning will be supported by resources, services, and activities such as:
- Provide support for teaching innovation in various aspects, ie. diverse teaching modes, integration of innovative techniques.
- Faculty professional development activities and support for conference attendance.
- Development support for faculty research initiatives (assistance locating funding sources, grant writing workshops, etc.)
- Support for faculty curriculum development and revision.
- Propose strategies to support faculty engagement in grantsmanship
Additional offerings by the Center for Teaching and Learning will ultimately include:
- Creation and dissemination of instructional resource materials, including a faculty handbook.
- Work with the online resource/media center.
- Support for student participation programs (honors programs, WAC, Study Abroad Program).
