Table of Contents

Vision

Mission

Teaching

Learning

Excellence

1.1: Programming

2.1: Observation & Consultations

3.1: Conferences

3.2: Books & Periodicals

3.3: Trends

3.4: Faculty Work

4.1: New Faculty Orientation

4.2: Research & Conferences

4.2.1: Teaching Conferences

4.2.1: Teaching Innovations

4.3: Teaching & Learning

4.3.1: Collaboration & Support

About DCTE

The Center sponsors programs and events related to teaching and learning in higher education; consults and collaborates with individuals, offices, departments, and programs that impact teaching and learning; gathers and disseminates resources on teaching and learning in higher education to all teaching faculty; and produces, supports, and promotes the scholarship of teaching and learning on campus and in the broader higher education community.

Source: http://www1.assumption.edu/cte/about/

Start: End: Publication Date: 2019-11-30

Organization: D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence (DCTE)

Stakeholders:
OrganizationAssumption College
Description:All Assumption College faculty, full- and part-time, are welcome to attend Center events and take full advantage of its resources.
PersonJames M. Lang, Ph.D.
Description:Director -- James M. Lang is a Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He is a member of the Fulbright Specialist Program roster in higher educatHead Shotion. He has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in English from St. Louis University, and a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University.Jim is the author of five books, the most recent of which are Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2016), Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Harvard University Press, 2013), and On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (Harvard UP, 2008). He serves on the editorial board for the journal College Teaching, and edits a new series of books on teaching and learning in higher education for West Virginia University Press. He has also developed an online course on Principles of Effective College Teaching, available from Magna Publications.Jim writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education; his work has been appearing in the Chronicle since 1999. His book reviews and public scholarship on higher education have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Time, and America.
PersonSarah Rose Cavanagh, Ph.D.
Description:Associate Director for Grants and Research -- Rose Cavanagh is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Associate Director for Grants and Research of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester MA. She has a B.A. in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Tufts University.Her research considers whether the strategies people choose to regulate their emotions and the degree to which they successfully accomplish this regulation can predict trajectories of psychological functioning over time. Most recently, she is investigating whether small interventions targeting emotions at the start of class can yield benefits for student learning. This work is funded by a generous grant from the Davis Educational Foundation and is being conducted in collaboration with James M. Lang, as well as a collaborative team centered at Tufts University and University of Massachusetts Medical School.Her book, The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, is being published by West Virginia University Press as part of James Lang’s series on teaching and learning in higher education. You can more read about it here and pre-order it here.Sarah also blogs on affective neuroscience for Psychology Today and writes essays for online and print magazines on the topic of the psychology of emotions, including Motherboard and Darling magazine.
PersonBeth Peterson
Description:Instructional Technologist

Submitter: Owen Ambur (Owen.Ambur@verizon.net)

Vision

Excellent learning

Mission

To foster and contribute to conversations about teaching and learning

Values

Teaching

Learning

Excellence

Goal 1: Programs & Events

Sponsor programs and events related to teaching and learning in higher education.

Objective 1.1: Programming

Conduct regularly scheduled events.

Other Information:

Regularly scheduled events include a monthly Food for Thought luncheon series; a Faculty Learning Community dinner each semester; and an Innovations in Higher Education Lecture Series in the spring.

Goal 2: Consultation & Collaboration

Consult and collaborate with individuals, offices, departments, and programs that impact teaching and learning.

Objective 2.1: Observation & Consultations

Consult and collaborate with Assumption College faculty members, offices, departments, and programs.

Stakeholder(s):

GroupAssumption College Faculty
Description:Assumption College faculty members, offices, departments, and programs
GroupAssumption College Offices
GroupAssumption College Departments
GroupAssumption College Programs

Other Information:

The Director of the Center is available to consult or collaborate with individual faculty members or with offices, departments, or programs on all matters related to teaching and learning on campus.

Goal 3: Resources

Gather and disseminate resources on teaching and learning in higher education to all teaching faculty.

Objective 3.1: Conferences

Disseminate information about conferences.

Objective 3.2: Books & Periodicals

Disseminate information about new books and periodicals.

Objective 3.3: Trends

Disseminate trends in higher education.

Objective 3.4: Faculty Work

Disseminate work being done by faculty on campus.

Stakeholder(s):

Assumption College Faculty

Goal 4: Scholarship

Produce, support, and promote the scholarship of teaching and learning on campus and in the broader higher education community.

Stakeholder(s):

GroupHigher Education Community

Objective 4.1: New Faculty Orientation

Work with the new faculty throughout the year to ensure a smooth transition to teaching at Assumption College.

Objective 4.2: Research & Conferences

Provide research and conference support.

Stakeholder(s):

GroupAssumption College Faculty

Other Information:

Research and Conference Support: The Center provides funding for faculty to attend teaching conferences in order to learn about and bring to campus the latest in innovative pedagogies; it also has funds available to support small-scale teaching innovations on campus.

Objective 4.2.1: Teaching Conferences

Provide funding for faculty to attend teaching conferences.

Stakeholder(s):

GroupAssumption College Faculty

Objective 4.2.1: Teaching Innovations

Provide funding to support small-scale teaching innovations on campus.

Objective 4.3: Teaching & Learning

Conduct and publish research on teaching and learning in higher education.

Stakeholder(s):

GroupHigher Education

Other Information:

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Director conducts and publishes research on teaching and learning in higher education, and supports and collaborates with faculty who wish to explore or produce scholarship on teaching and learning in higher education.

Objective 4.3.1: Collaboration & Support

Support and collaborate with faculty who wish to explore or produce scholarship on teaching and learning in higher education.

Stakeholder(s):

GroupAssumption College Faculty

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