The Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center is a central resource for faculty development in teaching. The center sponsors conferences, workshops, mentoring programs, books and materials, online instructional modules, classroom visitations, and individual consultations. Their services are available to all full time and part time faculty.
Professional Development Funding
Each faculty member is eligible for $900 annually from the unit for professional development. Most faculty use this assistance to defray conference costs although it may be used for other professional purposes such as association memberships, scholarly publications, and specialized software. The unit also provides $450 in professional development funding to visiting and affiliate faculty and also to professional staff members.
Scholarly Travel Grants from the Office of Research and Development are available to supplement unit contributions by defraying up to 50% of the cost of attending conferences to present papers, chair sessions, or fulfill duties of office. Research Grant awardees may receive up to $3000 for scholarly, creative and research activities. For research projects too extensive to pursue during the academic year, Summer Research Stipends supply salary for faculty awardees to work on outstanding research proposals.
The Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center awards Teaching Development and Research grants up to $650 to defray costs for teaching-related conferences and up to $3000 for extensive projects related to developing courses and curriculum. The Technology Enhancement Award provides up to $3000 to purchase technology materials to enhance courses. The Scholar-Teacher Award allows up to $7500 for developing teaching methodologies or new courses. The Presidential Teaching Initiative Awards grant up to $15,000 to units or interdisciplinary groups for broad, imaginative projects will result in new curriculum or pedagogies and which have a well-developed plan for assessing student outcomes. Lastly, Teaching Circle Grants are available in small amounts up to $250 to facilitate faculty dialogue related to teaching and learning.
Financial assistance is also targeted for international initiatives. The Padnos International Center makes available up to $2500 for Faculty/Staff Exchanges to consult with peers at partner institutions abroad. Partnership Grants up to $2500 assist faculty for work sustaining activities with partner institutions. Varying amounts are also available from Intercultural Studies Grants to support faculty activities related to attendance at intercultural conferences or efforts to internationalize the curriculum.
The unit provides consistent and prioritized support to develop knowledge and skills in performance assessment. Eight faculty and staff were funded to attend NCATE workshops in Washington, DC on performance assessment. Two NCATE program consultants were brought to campus to work with individual programs on assessment development, and several faculty were able to extend their attendance at professional conferences in order to meet with national consultants.
This year the unit began its Visiting Scholar program to bring an educational researcher to campus to discuss research trends with small groups and consult with faculty on individual projects. A visiting scholar will be invited to spend several days with faculty every semester, with suggestions solicited from faculty.
Faculty Awards and Honors
This section concludes Standard 5 by noting the increasing number of faculty awards and honors received for teaching, scholarship, and service. Some of these were chosen and presented by small student groups, others were chosen from among all university faculty, and still others were drawn from the even broader scholarly community. Over the last five years, College of Education faculty members received these outside awards and honors for excellence in teaching, scholarship, service, and overall professional contributions.
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