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Centers for Teaching and Learning

The New Landscape in Higher Education

An in-depth look at Centers for Teaching and Learning and their profound impact on US higher education.

Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) are important change agents on campus with strategies that are unique and impactful—but sometimes unarticulated or misaligned. In this wide-ranging book, Mary C. Wright maps the landscape of 1,200+ CTLs in the United States through a unique approach: by conducting complex web searches to identify and categorize CTLs, then examining the wealth of information that is available on these institutions' own websites. The data she uncovers reveal important insights into CTLs' strategies and operations and offer a fuller picture of the impact these centers are making on US higher education as a whole.

Drawing from this web-based methodology, as well as interviews with CTL leaders and staff, Wright provides a broad picture of educational development in the United States and examines trends in what CTLs aim to accomplish, key strategies for reaching these goals, programs and services they offer, and their impacts on campuses. She also explores new organizational mandates for CTLs, including ones involving instructional technology and online learning, assessment, writing, service learning and community engagement, and career and leadership development. In response to increased constituency sizes and expanding missions and mandates, she notes, centers are also incorporating new faculty and student engagement structures.

Key chapters focus on goals and theories of change, program types and exemplars, organizational structures, assessment and evaluation practices, and emerging trends. Offering guidelines for effective strategic leadership, Centers for Teaching and Learning documents the growth of this important organizational unit in US higher education and explains the role these centers play in supporting operational needs, strategic aims, and organizational change.

About the Author

Mary C. Wright is the associate provost for teaching and learning, the executive director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, and a research professor at Brown University. A former president of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, she is the author of Always at Odds? Creating Alignment Between Faculty and Administrative Values.

Endorsements

"A love letter to every center for teaching and learning. Mary Wright's painstaking research and insightful analysis offer a fresh, comprehensive, and in-depth look at CTLs and their impact. Her study illuminates the intellectual, practical, and rewarding work of delivering high-quality professional learning to advance student, faculty, and institutional success."

- Mary Deane Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst, coauthor of Faculty Development in the Age of Evidence: Current Practices, Future Imperatives

"With research, a framework, and theories of change, Mary Wright's book deftly confirms what the last few years of crisis have demonstrated: centers for teaching and learning are one of the precious few adaptive and transformative resources we have for taking higher education into an uncertain future."

- Randall Bass, Vice President of Strategic Education Initiatives, Georgetown University / Director, The Red House

"A Boyer 2030 commissioner, former POD Network president, and CTL leader at Michigan and Brown, Wright is unquestionably a leading subject matter authority. But what makes Centers for Teaching and Learning essential reading is its sociological sophistication, where theory and original empirical research are woven into a compelling, change-oriented narrative."

- Steven P. Dandaneau, Executive Director, Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities / Associate Provost, Colorado State University
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