Our Services
To work toward our goals, the center sponsors a variety of activities throughout the academic year and during the summer. For example, the center sponsors or supports:
- Luncheon discussion groups
- Faculty Interest Groups, affectionately known as FIGs.
- Book discussion groups
- A newsletter called The Art of Teaching
- A publication called The Acts of Teaching & Learning, highlighting student & faculty accomplishments
- A year long orientation for new faculty
- Individual teaching consultations
- Mid-term formative course evaluations
- Teaching time-out grants
- Travel grants to attend conferences relevant to teaching
- The use of instructional technology
- A resource/conference room in the Teaching Center. The room contains books, videos, and journals on the scholarship of teaching in higher education.
- A peer tutor program
- The use of teaching portfolios
- Service learning initiatives
- Summer and winter teaching workshops or retreats
- Special teaching institutes
- A Teaching Center Web site with links to other teaching resources
To contact us, call (615)460-5423 or e-mail Merrie King or Nanci Alsup, Program Assistant.
