2020-2025 Strategic Plan
Background:
The following strategic plan grew out of a review of both the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) mission statement and several strategic plans from teaching centers at various colleges across the country. The five goals listed below are in alignment with the College’s 2017-2025 Strategic Plan, most notably the following goal: “Ensure students are challenged by intellectually rigorous teaching and learning techniques inside and outside the classroom leading to high academic standards through a culture focused on assessment of student learning outcomes and continuous professional development of faculty.” This strategic plan operates under the belief that the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning is responsible for the continuous professional development of the faculty. Each of the following goals reflects that crucial aspect of the center’s mission.
GOAL 1: Promote a culture of academic excellence by ensuring new PT and FT faculty are supported during their first year at the College and beyond
Action items:
- Facilitate new full-time and part-time faculty first year orientation program
- Develop and maintain a faculty mentoring program
GOAL 2: Increase faculty engagement through continuous (academic year-round) professional development.
Action items:
- Continue to offer interdisciplinary professional learning communities (IPLCs) in multiple modalities
- Partner with College offices and new initiatives to promote faculty implementation of student success initiatives
GOAL 3: Support innovations in technology to enhance student learning
Action items:
- Collaborate with Office of Online Learning to share access to instructional practices and technology
- Facilitate faculty use of academic tools/apps
- Engage faculty in collaborative sessions to discuss the impact of innovations in technology in their courses
GOAL 4: Strengthen teaching, learning, and assessment through interdisciplinary approaches
Action items:
- Assist the Office of Assessment and DCAFs with professional learning on assessment
- Continue to offer programming to assist faculty on assignment design and assessment of student learning
- Offer programming for faculty that focuses on diverse, inclusive, and equitable pedagogy
- Offer Think-Pair-Share sessions for faculty to exchange the impact of interdisciplinary approaches to teaching, learning and assessment.
GOAL 5: Become a driving force of pedagogical development in the region
Action items:
- Connect with other faculty teaching centers at area community colleges to share ideas and cultivate best practices for faculty development
- Partner with peer institutions to hold conference/workshops
Goals and Action Items prepared by the FCTL Strategic Plan Committee (Ben Baker, Nikki Karam, Fran Lukacik, Girija Nagaswami, and Stephanie Scordia) Spring 2020
Revised by the FCTL Strategic Plan Committee (Kristen Ainscoe, Deirdre Garrity-Benjamin, Fran Lukacik, Girija Nagaswami, and Stephanie Scordia) Fall 2022
