Executive sponsors
- Andrew Harris, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, History, 91±¬ÁÏ Tacoma
- Sharon Jones, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and STEM, 91±¬ÁÏ Bothell
- Phil Reid, Vice Provost for Academic & Student Affairs and Professor, Chemistry, 91±¬ÁÏ Seattle
Leadership committee members
- Deborah Hathaway, Director, Learning and Teaching Collaborative and Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, 91±¬ÁÏ Bothell
- Darcy Janzen, Director, Digital Learning, Executive Director of the Faculty Resource Center and Affiliate Faculty, School of Education, 91±¬ÁÏ Tacoma
- Katie Malcolm, Associate Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, English, College of Arts and Sciences, 91±¬ÁÏ Seattle
- Penelope Moon, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, History, College of Arts and Sciences, 91±¬ÁÏ Seattle and School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, 91±¬ÁÏ Bothell
- Marisa Nickle, Senior Director, Strategy & Academic Initiatives, Academic & Student Affairs, 91±¬ÁÏ Seattle
Charge letter
Dear colleagues,
In an effort to provide instructors with more equitable access to high-quality opportunities to advance their teaching, I am establishing the Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ instructional support network. The network consists of a Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Executive Sponsor Group and Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Leadership Committee, plus a new Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Advisory Council to gather input from faculty and key stakeholders.
In addition to providing instructors with instructional support resources that will be tri-campus de novo, the creation of a network will reduce duplication of effort, freeing up staff and faculty time to create more specialized, campus-specific support for instructors. It will also create a clear mechanism to gather faculty insights and input on instructional support unit efforts and support campus leaders’ advocacy efforts around teaching and learning.
I ask that you now serve in this new structure.
Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Executive sponsors charge
Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Executive Sponsors include the vice provost and vice chancellors responsible for instructional support units on each 91±¬ÁÏ campus. Executive sponsors are responsible for:
- Developing a strategy for tri-campus coordination that aligns with institutional priorities and is informed by Teaching @91±¬ÁÏ Leadership Committee and Advisory Council perspectives – what work is best done in collaboration and what is best done at the campus level, and what to prioritize.
- Engaging with the provost and faculty governance around teaching and learning.
- Providing the Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Leadership Committee with ongoing guidance, oversight, and advocacy.
Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Leadership Committee (T@LC) charge
The Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Leadership Committee membership is comprised of campus leaders that established the Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ website and serve as pedagogical support leads. Under the direction of Executive Sponsors, and with input from a Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Advisory Council and other relevant faculty groups (e.g., the Faculty Council on Teaching & Learning), the Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Leadership Committee will:
- Develop and refine a set of common resources (e.g., Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ website) and programming (e.g., workshops and new faculty orientation to teaching at 91±¬ÁÏ) to support teaching excellence and advance institutional priorities across the 91±¬ÁÏ’s three campuses
- Liaise and coordinate with additional instructional support units (i.e., outlined in this graphic of the current state of 91±¬ÁÏ instructional support groups) to ensure its actions and decisions are well-informed, mindful of downstream impacts, and collaborative in nature
- Represent the T@LC in committees, working groups, task forces, and communities of practice that advance institutional priorities related to teaching and learning
- Surface common areas of opportunity and need, and recommend priority areas to its executive sponsors to better support teaching excellence across 91±¬ÁÏ’s three campuses
- Seek advice and input on proposed activities from faculty members at regular meetings with its Advisory Council and with faculty colleagues in other settings
- Coordinate two Teaching@91±¬ÁÏ Advisory Council meetings per year.
The work of this group will be guided by evidence-based teaching principles and the core elements of effective teaching, developed as a result of the Future of Teaching and Learning initiative, and its work will be supported by the 91±¬ÁÏ Center for Teaching and Learning’s administrative assistant.
Thank you for lending your expertise to this effort and for your deep, and long-standing, commitment to elevating teaching and learning at 91±¬ÁÏ. I look forward to your leadership and contributions toward developing a coherent approach to supporting instructors on our three campuses.
Sincerely,
Tricia R. Serio
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor, Biochemistry
Updated: November 5, 2024