Mission
The Center for Teaching Excellence promotes teaching practices that enhance student learning at UMass Dartmouth. To this end, the Center:
- Facilitates collaborative faculty engagement with the practice and scholarship of teaching in a supportive and non-evaluative environment;
- Provides services, programs, and information on effective teaching and teaching assessment practices to assist faculty with their on-going professional development as educators;
- Encourages innovative research and scholarly publication on learning and teaching in higher education;
- Connects UMass Dartmouth faculty with national and regional organizations and initiatives pertaining to the improvement of university-level teaching;
- Regularly assesses campus needs in the areas of teaching and learning to inform development of CTE programming;
- Contributes to the development of policies, initiatives, and campus-wide culture that supports excellence in teaching.
