Services Offered by the TLC

Workshops & Events are scheduled throughout the academic year on a variety of topics of interest to faculty. New faculty and adjunct workshops are scheduled in August and January.

Research about teaching and learning at the College are sponsored by the Center, in order to promote the college's engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Conference Support is provided to a limited number of individuals to attend conferences relating to teaching and learning in higher education.

Mentoring relationships are set up by the Center between members of the faculty. The goal of such mentoring is to provide faculty with opportunities to think throughout their teaching practices outside of the constraints of regularly scheduled teaching evaluation.
Consultations are provided to individual faculty members about issues that arise in their teaching practices, as well as to departments and to groups of faculty who face a common issue.

Clearinghouse & Resource Center offers to serve as a clearinghouse for faculty interested in particular pedagogical questions or issues and a TLC Resource Library is available.

SOME PRIMARY INTERESTS
Language Diversity Initiative began as a Fipse project, to encourage faculty to take advantage of students' language skills in their classes. The Center Supports the ongoing activities of the Language Diversity Initiative. (see the LDI REPORT)

The TLC works closely with the Technology Resource Center in showcasing and helping faculty implement innovative uses of technology in the classroom.

Understanding First Generation College Students' Needs is a cause for which The Center requires funding. Our goal is to improve the ways that the College socializes first generation college students into the values and practices of academic life.