April 19, 2019

Provost to share teaching and learning road map at Honors College event

After more than a year of campus-wide input, the Purdue Teaching and Learning Excellence Initiative will be discussed at a student-hosted event Tuesday (April 23) in Honors Hall at the Honors College and Residences North building.

Doors open at 4:15 p.m. with a reception sponsored by the Provost’s Office. A panel discussion beginning at 4:30 p.m. will include Jay Akridge, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity; Frank Dooley, senior vice provost for teaching and learning; John Gates, vice provost for diversity and inclusion; and Jenna Rickus, associate vice provost for teaching and learning.

The event, “Purdue at 175,” will explore future directions for teaching and learning over the next 25 years. The program is hosted by a Purdue Honors College class in which students are asked to research, discuss and analyze the history of great teaching at Purdue. Students were connected with Purdue’s 150th Anniversary Professors as part of their research. The course is led by Kristina Bross, professor of English, and Dan Guberman, an instructional developer at the Center for Instructional Excellence.

“Like all Honors College classes, the course is interdisciplinary, open to students of any major, and includes project-based learning,” Bross says. “The students first worked to define ‘excellent teaching’ from their own experiences, then were assigned in groups to interview and observe award-winning teachers from across the campus. Because of our focus, we thought it would be apropos to invite the provost to share the Teaching and Learning Excellence Initiative at our forum."

Dooley agrees: “I can’t think of a better setting in which to discuss our teaching and learning road map. Student insight always adds value to the conversation and now we’ll have a framework to guide those discussions as well as our next steps.”

The initiative, focused on how to ensure educational excellence for Purdue’s undergraduate program in 2030 and beyond, began in December 2017 as a conversation with members of the Teaching Academy and associate deans for undergraduate education. The conversation expanded to nine “listening sessions” during the spring 2018 semester with faculty, staff, and students from across campus. In fall 2018, the Teaching Academy sponsored four panel discussions with 150th Anniversary Professors to discuss some of the questions that emerged from the listening sessions, and earlier this semester, the provost hosted two well-attended forums that have informed the final draft and plans for implementation.

All interested faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.


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