
Programs and Initiatives
The Center for Teaching Excellence offers several programs that support instructors who want to pursue course transformation, incorporate and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, and become involved in an intellectual community of instructors.
Ongoing Grant Projects
2.05M
The TRESTLE project implements and assesses a model for promoting widespread transformation of undergraduate STEM courses (and faculty members) using department-embedded pedagogy experts and community building, at a network of 7 research universities.
614k
The Benchmarks for Teaching Effectiveness Grant is a collaborative grant with UMass Amherst, CU Boulder, and Michigan State to foster department adaptation of a multidimensional, multisource framework for the documentation, review and evaluation of teaching.
466K
The Faculty Seminar grant supports the creation of an adaptable Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Curriculum that integrates concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion, centering the work of visiting performing artists.
20k
The Association of American Universities STEM education improvement grant is an initiative in which faculty teams from STEM departments are empowered to use institutional data to address questions about student learning and success in their curricula/programs.