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Initiatives

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) provides professional learning communities; faculty certificate programs; online education training and resources; and initiatives promoting multicultural understanding and global citizenship in support of effective teaching at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

Responding to Faculty and Student Needs

In response to faculty and student needs, CETL aims to promote instructional excellence to benefit student success; support and highlight innovative instructional practices; and cultivate inclusive curricula and classroom climate. CETL does so by providing leadership and coordinating support for the following initiatives:
  • Coursera

    As outlined in the College's Strategic Plan, CETL works to advance university initiatives in student learning and to empower faculty dedicated to the success of their students. 

    The Coursera Project aims to move adoption to the next level by providing faculty with support through their journeys incorporating microcredentialing programs into traditional classroom learning. The Coursera Project Director will work closely with CETL to guide faculty through implementing this unique and free professional development tool for individual faculty growth as well as collaborate in developing a blended learning experience for students across curricula. 

  • CETL Grants

    Each year, CETL offers a limited number of grants towards scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and faculty innovation in teaching and learning (FITT) to fund instructional innovation and/or scholarly research.

  • Online Education & E-Learning Initiative

    CETL Online Education & e-Learning programs focuses on providing faculty with resources, training, and guidance necessary to create dynamic, innovative, and effective online courses and programs at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

    Collaborating with faculty across campus, the Online Education & e-Learning Initiative serves to provide mentorship, the online education readiness training course, innovation in teaching and learning technologies, assist faculty with online and blended learning models, and fostering best practices in online education. 

    Please note: You MUST complete the OE Certification Course PRIOR to teaching online for the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, in accordance with the Online Education policy.

  • Multicultural Understanding and Global Citizenship

    CETL works to advance university initiatives in student learning; to support multicultural understanding and global citizenship and to empower faculty dedicated to the success of their students. 

    Multicultural Understanding and Global Citizenship Initiative prepares faculty to teach approved courses toward the College's requirement that every undergraduate student take two, 3-credit hour courses on multicultural understanding and global citizenship one with a domestic/US focus and one with an international/global focus.

    Please note: To teach Multicultural Understanding and Global Citizenship courses at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, you must be certified by the Multicultural Understanding and Global Citizenship Initiative initially and meet requirements to maintain certification every 2 years.