In this Lunch & Learn session, Drs. Melissa Fortner and Julie Perino introduced the current state of the Center and their initial goals and priorities for Center work. They also polled faculty members to find out more about the kinds of services and support faculty would like to see from the CTE. 

Currently, the CTE has provisioinal funding, a temporary space under development in the library, and a mission statement. 

The guiding principles of the Center are to:

•  Provide evidence-based, inclusive, reflective, and collaborative opportunities for faculty teaching development

• Participate in organizational development related to the educational mission of the University, as experts in scholarly research on teaching and learning.

Our current goals are to:

• Participate in the University Strategic Planning process

• Develop partnerships with existing faculty development sites

• Create an Advisory Group

• Host at least one Faculty Learning Community

• Collaborate on New Faculty Roundtable to prepare for a big cohort!

• Offer grant support for development

• Help coordinate at least one workshop

• Offer individual consultations

Faculty at the meeting were most interested in:

• support for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

• forums and/or building a communal time and space for faculty to share teaching knowledge

• coordination of groups to pedagogy-related conferences

• just-in-time communities, time-limited communities, and mini-FLCs

• team teaching and travel course support

• advocacy for making faculty workload more sensible and having space for slow time built in