Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education
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An in-depth look at Centers for Teaching and Learning and their profound impact on US higher education.
Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) are important change agents on campus with strategies that are unique and impactful―but sometimes unarticulated or misaligned. In this wide-ranging book, Mary C. Wright maps the landscape of 1,200+ CTLs in the United States through a unique approach: by conducting complex web searches to identify and categorize CTLs, then examining the wealth of information that is available on these institutions’ own websites. The data she uncovers reveal important insights into CTLs’ strategies and operations and offer a fuller picture of the impact these centers are making on US higher education as a whole.
Drawing from this web-based methodology, as well as interviews with CTL leaders and staff, Wright provides a broad picture of educational development in the United States and examines trends in what CTLs aim to accomplish, key strategies for reaching these goals, programs and services they offer, and their impacts on campuses. She also explores new organizational mandates for CTLs, including ones involving instructional technology and online learning, assessment, writing, service learning and community engagement, and career and leadership development. In response to increased constituency sizes and expanding missions and mandates, she notes, centers are also incorporating new faculty and student engagement structures.
Key chapters focus on goals and theories of change, program types and exemplars, organizational structures, assessment and evaluation practices, and emerging trends. Offering guidelines for effective strategic leadership, Centers for Teaching and Learning documents the growth of this important organizational unit in US higher education and explains the role these centers play in supporting operational needs, strategic aims, and organizational change.
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press (September 12, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 296 pages
ISBN-10 : 1421447002
ISBN-13 : 978-1421447001
Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.02 x 9 inches
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Derek Bruff –
A compelling survey of the state of centers for teaching and learning
In this book Mary Wright, associate provost for teaching and learning and executive director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University, reports on her multi-year study of centers for teaching and learning through their Web presences. She answers questions like, How many CTLs are there in the US? (Answer: 1,209.) Also, How many CTL leaders have senior leadership positions like vice president or associate provost? (Answer: 21%.) And, What do CTLs say about themselves through their mission statements? (Short answer: Lots.)For someone like me, who has spent his career working in CTLs, Wrightâs work is a fascinating look at my own field and how it represents itself through mission statements, listings of programs and services, and annual reports. If you’re in the field of educational development or, perhaps more importantly, if you’re an administrator at a college or university that has a CTL and want to understand its work and its value, I highly recommend Mary’s book.
An Amazonian –
Dull
Wright’s method was to collect mission statements from every CTL and then calculate summary statistics. “The verb ‘help’ appears in 18% of statements” is a typical claim.She draws on a pre-existing scheme that sorts CTLs into four categories: Hubs, Incubators, Temples, and Sieves. It’s unclear to me whether there is a real distinction between these categories.This book achieves its modest goal: it compiles comprehensive data for the CTL community to refer to.But the book has no thesis and no claims about best practices. And the data compiled reflects what CTLs say, which may be different from what they do.In sum, this is a piece of armchair research without much value.