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About CTE

About
CTE’s vision is to foster a campus culture in which the praxis and scholarship of effective teaching are highly valued, invested in, continuously improved upon, and celebrated.

Explore our mission, values, and strategic goals.

Our Mission

CTE's approach is supportive and formative in nature; and instructor participation is voluntary. Interactions between CTE personnel and instructors are confidential, non-evaluative, and separate from the university's formal assessment process.

At CTE, we: 

  • Prioritize community-building opportunities with an emphasis on belonging 
  • Provide high-quality, energizing educational development opportunities and resources focused on evidence-based and scholarly-informed pedagogical approaches and strategies
  • Leverage faculty expertise and experience to promote interdisciplinarity and effective teaching
  • Encourage and facilitate deliberate improvement and assessment of course content and methods of instruction, appreciating the learning, growth, and change processes involved
  • Value, integrate, engage in, and advance the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
  • Resource faculty to advance innovative projects and initiatives
  • Promote student and instructor well-being for a flourishing learning environment
  • Recognize the importance of appreciation and celebration for effective teaching
  • Continuously engage in organizational evaluation of CTE's operations, campus communication, and offerings in ways that are both forward-looking and responsive 

Our Values

Celebration
Appreciate the effort and dedication of the teaching and learning processes

Challenge
Enthusiastically embrace the complexities of effective teaching

Change
Value openness and actions toward learning, growth, and innovation

Collaboration
Work together to accomplish common goals

Community
Maintain a sense of belonging and inclusivity 

Connection
Create strong relationships with one another by emphasizing listening, understanding, and valuing others 

Creativity
Use imagination, originality, artistry, and exploration

Curiosity
Desire to explore, examine, and invest in the learning process