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Colby, Susan A.; Cruz, Laura; Cordaro, Danielle; Cruz, Clare – To Improve the Academy, 2022
Faculty fellows have long served as a staple of centers for teaching and learning (CTLs), but to date little to no evidence has been gathered regarding their broader impact. The current study provides a snapshot of U.S.-based faculty fellows programs today, based on a comprehensive review of CTL websites. We categorize faculty fellows programs…
Descriptors: Teacher Centers, Educational Development, Fellowships, Faculty Development
Nasrollahian Mojarad, Sara; Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2022
MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
Dietz, Lauri; Jenkins, China M.; Cruz, Laura; Handy, Amber; Kumar, Rita; Metzker, Julia; Norris, Ian – To Improve the Academy, 2022
The global pandemic that began in 2020 amplified the chasm between higher education's stated goals to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the systemic realities that many students, instructors, and staff grapple with on a daily basis. We contend that attenuating the barriers to DEI outcomes means first acknowledging that DEI is a…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Cultural Influences
Cruz, Laura; Huxtable-Jester, Karen; Smentkowski, Brian; Springborg, Martin – To Improve the Academy, 2021
This study seeks to explore the physical spaces centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) occupy; with an emphasis on gaining a better picture of what CTL spaces look like; where they are located; how they developed: and what these spaces represent. We gathered visual, empirical, and qualitative data to take the first steps towards developing a…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teacher Centers
Cruz, Laura; Cunningham, Kathryn; Smentkowski, Brian; Steiner, Hillary – To Improve the Academy, 2019
This article presents a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) scaffold, a conceptual model designed for educational developers (and others) who support the values, practices, and production of the SoTL, both on their campuses and beyond. The SoTL scaffold explicates distinct support levels, ranging from spark to lead, each of which call for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Educational Development, Concept Formation
Brinthaupt, Thomas M.; Cruz, Laura; Otto, Sheila; Pinter, Mike – To Improve the Academy, 2019
Many centers for teaching and learning (CTL) are challenged with developing new programs and services that are constrained by limited staff and resources. Tapping into on- and off-campus expertise is one way for CTL to expand their range of options for faculty development. In this paper, we present a framework that describes how CTL can assess the…
Descriptors: Resource Centers, Higher Education, College Faculty, Faculty Development
Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2018
This essay examines the idea of educational development, inspired both in content and approach by John Henry Newman's influential 19th century work on the idea of a university.
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational History, Universities
Kelley, Bruce; Cruz, Laura; Fire, Nancy – To Improve the Academy, 2017
Educational developers have generally articulated their mission around three major poles: faculty/professional development, instructional development, and organizational development (Diamond, 2002; Lewis, 1996). While the first two poles have received greater attention in the past, an increasing amount of emphasis is being placed on organizational…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Organizational Development, Organizational Change