Improvement of Learning Committee

Purpose and Duties

1. Serves as a forum for the discussion of educational ideas and issues.
2. Encourages faculty and academic staff members to evaluate and improve their teaching.
3. Serves as a source of information on improvement of learning.
4. Communicates suggestions for better learning procedures to faculty and students.
5. Assists faculty in preparing teaching improvement grant proposals, sabbatical proposals, and faculty development and retraining proposals.
6. Serves as the campus faculty review body for proposals such as teacher improvement grants, sabbaticals, faculty development and retraining, faculty college, and other appropriate teaching improvement conferences.

Composition of Committee

• Minimum of thirteen faculty including the director of the Teaching Excellence Center and at least one, but no more than six from each college.
• One instructional academic staff representative.
• Five students.
• Ex-Officio (non-voting): Provost