Our mission is to support an ever-expanding community of faculty, staff and administrators dedicated to learning about learning. The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) offers a variety of opportunities in the instructional and professional development areas, including one-time workshops, individual clinics, customized department workshops, semester-long seminars, special events, and summer institutes. The CTE has several major goals:

1. to foster growth in individual teaching capacities throughout a faculty member’s professional career
2. to develop communities of practice around teaching and learning challenges and opportunities
3. to support interdisciplinary and cross-campus collaboration
4. to guide academic and career departments in exploring goals, objectives and teaching proficiencies
5. to foster a campus environment where learning about learning is a central, valued, and ongoing process

The CTE Advisory Board, with members drawn from every discipline and area of the college, determines the needs of our center and supports a diversity of collaborative efforts, including working with neighboring colleges.