Mission Statement The mission of The Center for Excellence in Instruction is to enhance teaching and learning

Mission Statement

The mission of The Center for Excellence in Instruction is to enhance teaching and learning, and increase student success through ongoing support and development of the faculty.

The Center for Excellence in Instruction is dedicated to working with faculty to:

Develop a culture that values and rewards excellence in teaching and scholarship;
Recognize and support individual differences among learners, acknowledging that faculty are themselves diverse, lifelong learners;
Connect faculty to provide a network for sharing classroom strategies and professional development projects;
Foster innovation in teaching and learning;
Identify promising models for instruction;
Nurture scholarship as vital to effective teaching.

The Center for Excellence in Instruction accomplishes this mission by:

Providing space for faculty to study, exchange ideas, learn about and experiment with effective methods of teaching and learning;
Providing individualized training for the integration of instructional technology into courses;
Informing faculty through forums, workshops, training programs and publications;
Providing professional development resources such as pedagogical journals, discipline-specific texts, software and multimedia tools for course content development.