The University of Georgia has been committed to developing instructional excellence among its faculty for more than 40 years through the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). This week brings us to a major milestone for this office.
In 1978, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Virginia Trotter, established the Office of Instructional Development. This office became a physical and functioning part of the university a few months later in 1979 making it one of the oldest institutional units dedicated to developing teaching capacity among its faculty in the nation and the oldest in the state of Georgia.
In addition, the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning has been nationally recognized for over 30 years as a leader in bringing effective professional learning and support practices to the instructional development space. The center provides multiple longitudinal, cohort-based development programs that provide a series of rich, related, and sequenced experiences with opportunities for practice and reflection. These attributes are a cornerstones of the center’s earliest programs, including the Lilly Teaching Fellows, Senior Teaching Fellows, and the Future Faculty Fellows programs, and continue to be emphasized in newer CTL programs, like the Active Learning Summer Institute and Fellows for Innovative Teaching.
To learn more about what CTL can do you for you, visit the website at Center for Teaching and Learning.