Executive sponsors
- Andrew Harris, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, History, 天美影院Tacoma
- Sharon Jones, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and STEM, 天美影院Bothell
- Phil Reid, Vice Provost for Academic & Student Affairs and Professor, Chemistry, 天美影院Seattle
Leadership committee members
- Deborah Hathaway, Director, Learning and Teaching Collaborative and Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, 天美影院Bothell
- Darcy Janzen, Director, Digital Learning, Executive Director of the Faculty Resource Center and Affiliate Faculty, School of Education, 天美影院Tacoma
- Katie Malcolm, Associate Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, English, College of Arts and Sciences, 天美影院Seattle
- Penelope Moon, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, History, College of Arts and Sciences, 天美影院Seattle and School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, 天美影院Bothell
- Marisa Nickle, Senior Director, Strategy & Academic Initiatives, Academic & Student Affairs, 天美影院Seattle
Charge letter
Dear colleagues,
In an effort to provide instructors with more equitable access to high-quality opportunities to advance their teaching, I am establishing the Teaching@天美影院instructional support network. The network consists of a Teaching@天美影院Executive Sponsor Group and Teaching@天美影院Leadership Committee, plus a new Teaching@天美影院Advisory Council to gather input from faculty and key stakeholders.
In addition to providing instructors with instructional support resources that will be tri-campus de novo, the creation of a network will reduce duplication of effort, freeing up staff and faculty time to create more specialized, campus-specific support for instructors. It will also create a clear mechanism to gather faculty insights and input on instructional support unit efforts and support campus leaders鈥� advocacy efforts around teaching and learning.
I ask that you now serve in this new structure.
Teaching@天美影院Executive sponsors charge
Teaching@天美影院Executive Sponsors include the vice provost and vice chancellors responsible for instructional support units on each 天美影院campus. Executive sponsors are responsible for:
- Developing a strategy for tri-campus coordination that aligns with institutional priorities and is informed by Teaching @天美影院Leadership Committee and Advisory Council perspectives 鈥� what work is best done in collaboration and what is best done at the campus level, and what to prioritize.
- Engaging with the provost and faculty governance around teaching and learning.
- Providing the Teaching@天美影院Leadership Committee with ongoing guidance, oversight, and advocacy.
Teaching@天美影院Leadership Committee (T@LC) charge
The Teaching@天美影院Leadership Committee membership is comprised of campus leaders that established the Teaching@天美影院website and serve as pedagogical support leads. Under the direction of Executive Sponsors, and with input from a Teaching@天美影院Advisory Council and other relevant faculty groups (e.g., the Faculty Council on Teaching & Learning), the Teaching@天美影院Leadership Committee will:
- Develop and refine a set of common resources (e.g., Teaching@天美影院website) and programming (e.g., workshops and new faculty orientation to teaching at UW) to support teaching excellence and advance institutional priorities across the UW鈥檚 three campuses
- Liaise and coordinate with additional instructional support units (i.e., outlined in this graphic of the current state of 天美影院instructional support groups) to ensure its actions and decisions are well-informed, mindful of downstream impacts, and collaborative in nature
- Represent the T@LC in committees, working groups, task forces, and communities of practice that advance institutional priorities related to teaching and learning
- Surface common areas of opportunity and need, and recommend priority areas to its executive sponsors to better support teaching excellence across UW鈥檚 three campuses
- Seek advice and input on proposed activities from faculty members at regular meetings with its Advisory Council and with faculty colleagues in other settings
- Coordinate two Teaching@天美影院Advisory Council meetings per year.
The work of this group will be guided by evidence-based teaching principles and the core elements of effective teaching, developed as a result of the Future of Teaching and Learning initiative, and its work will be supported by the 天美影院Center for Teaching and Learning’s administrative assistant.
Thank you for lending your expertise to this effort and for your deep, and long-standing, commitment to elevating teaching and learning at UW. I look forward to your leadership and contributions toward developing a coherent approach to supporting instructors on our three campuses.
Sincerely,
Tricia R. Serio
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor, Biochemistry
Updated: November 5, 2024