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Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Executive Sponsors and Leadership Committee

Executive sponsors

  • Andrew Harris, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, History, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma
  • Sharon Jones, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and STEM, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell
  • Phil Reid, Vice Provost for Academic & Student Affairs and Professor, Chemistry, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Seattle

Leadership committee members

  • Deborah Hathaway, Director, Learning and Teaching Collaborative and Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell
  • Darcy Janzen, Director, Digital Learning, Executive Director of the Faculty Resource Center and Affiliate Faculty, School of Education, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma
  • Katie Malcolm, Associate Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, English, College of Arts and Sciences, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Seattle
  • Penelope Moon, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, History, College of Arts and Sciences, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Seattle and School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell
  • Marisa Nickle, Senior Director, Strategy & Academic Initiatives, Academic & Student Affairs, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø instructional support network. The network consists of a Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Executive Sponsor Group and Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Leadership Committee, plus a new Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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’ advocacy efforts around teaching and learning.

I ask that you now serve in this new structure.

Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Executive sponsors charge

Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Executive Sponsors include the vice provost and vice chancellors responsible for instructional support units on each ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus. Executive sponsors are responsible for:

  • Developing a strategy for tri-campus coordination that aligns with institutional priorities and is informed by Teaching @ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Leadership Committee and Advisory Council perspectives – 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@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Leadership Committee with ongoing guidance, oversight, and advocacy.

Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Leadership Committee (T@LC) charge

The Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Leadership Committee membership is comprised of campus leaders that established the Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø website and serve as pedagogical support leads. Under the direction of Executive Sponsors, and with input from a Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Advisory Council and other relevant faculty groups (e.g., the Faculty Council on Teaching & Learning), the Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Leadership Committee will:

  • Develop and refine a set of common resources (e.g., Teaching@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø website) and programming (e.g., workshops and new faculty orientation to teaching at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) to support teaching excellence and advance institutional priorities across the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s three campuses
  • Liaise and coordinate with additional instructional support units (i.e., outlined in this graphic of the current state of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s 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@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. 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