The Center for Teaching and Learning envisions a university culture that values and encourages excellence in teaching and learning.

We work with you to achieve this.

The Center organizes orientation and mentoring for new faculty and offers consulting with individual instructors about their courses, classrooms, students and teaching. Consulting is also provided for department chairs.

Faculty and instructional staff attend weekly lunch series organized by the Center where colleagues from across disciplines discuss teaching strategies, innovations and current higher education literature; or report on research and travel.

Year-long intensive fellowships are sponsored by the Center. Faculty and instructional staff apply through the faculty development committee for these fellowships:

• The Diversity Institute supports instructors who conduct a project intended to enhance intercultural competence in our community.
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellowship enables instructors to design a project intended to answer a research query concerning their own teaching and student learning.
• The Civic Engagement Fellowship guides instructors as they revise existing
experiences for Truman students through the use of Service-Learning or other methods so that students’ civic engagement is enhanced.

Numerous workshops, seminars, forums and reading circles, offered by the Center each semester, assist faculty members and instructional staff in enhancing their career development, classroom instruction, instructional technology and research.

Each summer Truman faculty and instructional staff participate in external conferences and engagements with support from the Center. The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the Wakonse Conference on College Teaching, AAC&U conferences, and trips to meet grant program officers are consistently funded for faculty.