Center for
Teaching, Learning & Academic Support
Advancing Teaching, Research, and
Creative Endeavors
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
#1: Make available opportunities for faculty to develop a theoretical knowledge base for effective teaching
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On-campus workshop(s) with expert consultants
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Support for attendance to teaching and learning conferences (if funds are available)
#2: Provide opportunities for "master" teachers to share and to model their best practices
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Mentoring within and across disciplines (Junior or new faculty)
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Focus groups or luncheons to share "what worked and why"
#3: Promote e-courses for asynchronous learning "outside the four walls" to accommodate different learning styles and lifestyles of a diverse student body
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E-course development
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Faculty training
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Multimedia instructional enhancement
#4: Support faculty development through provisions for communications across the curriculum to maintain a vital professoriate
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Assist faculty with editing (e.g., papers and articles for publication, speeches, brochures and web presentations via The ReWrite Connection
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Assist faculty in incorporating reading and writing across the curriculum to improve student outcomes on proficiency examinations
#5: Maintain a mentoring program for new faculty
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Needs Assessment to set annual agenda
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Workshops on transitional topics of interest
#6: Promote higher pass rates on Regents' Test among test-takers
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Provide opportunity (Basic Composition) for students with a remedial reading requirement (but no remedial English) to hone their writing skills until such time that they can enroll in English 1101
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Support advanced literary across the curriculum
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Offer seminars for students who failed the test multiple times
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Identify and nurture PETS (Prospective Early Test-Takers)
#7: Provide math tutoring via the university wide Math Lab for students having difficulty in math and math-related courses
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Provide one-on-one tutoring during flexible hours
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Connect students to appropriate tutorial math software programs