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Teaching@UW Advisory Council

Advisory council members

  • Bryan Blakeley, Assistant Vice Provost, Partnerships & Online Learning, Continuum College
  • Mary Kay Gugerty, Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning and Professor in Nonprofit Management, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
  • Daniel Grossman, Professor and Vice Director, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Somnath Mookherjee, MD, Director of the Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education and Professor of Medicine, UW School of Medicine
  • Jason Naranjo, Associate Teaching Professor and Chair K-12 Behavioral Health, School of Educational Studies, UW Bothell
  • Rebecca Price, Professor, Science Education, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell José Rios, Associate Professor, School of Education, UW Tacoma
  • Karin Roberts, Director, Teaching & Learning Systems, UW-IT Data & Applications
  • Casey Self, Teaching Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences and Chair, Faculty Council on Teaching and Learning
  • Libi Sunderman, Teaching Professor of History, School for Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma

Charge letter

Dear colleagues,

In an effort to provide instructors with clearer, more equitable access to high-quality opportunities to advance their teaching and build on the success of the collaboration that produced the Teaching@UW website, I am establishing the Teaching@UW instructional support network. The network consists of a Teaching@UW Executive Sponsor Group, a Teaching@UW Leadership Committee, and a Teaching@UW Advisory Council.

In addition to providing instructors with instructional support that is 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 serve in this new structure as a member of the Teaching@UW Advisory Council.

Your charge

As a member of the Teaching@UW Advisory Council, you will provide feedback and guidance to help instructional support structures better meet the needs of instructors across UW’s three campuses. Members will:

  1. Attend twice yearly Advisory Council meetings
  2. Advise the Teaching@UW Leadership Committee on strategy, programming, and resource development that advances teaching excellence across UW’s three campuses and across teaching modalities
  3. Share information on new instructional support resources with colleagues (e.g., sending to instructors in home academic units, to faculty governance bodies, mailing lists, etc.) at the member’s home campus
  4. Consult with colleagues (e.g., faculty in home academic units, faculty governance bodies, instructional support staff, etc.) and bring emerging instructional support issues to the attention of the Teaching@UW Leadership Committee
  5. Serve as a sounding board for the Teaching@UW leadership committee and tri-campus instructional support efforts on new activities in the planning stages

Membership of this advisory council includes representatives from UW’s three campuses from a range of roles and disciplines to reflect the diversity of teaching and learning contexts and experiences. Together, you will advise the Teaching@UW Leadership Committee – the team that led the creation of the Teaching@UW website, including pedagogical support leads from each UW campus. Your input, along with guidance from Teaching@UW Executive Sponsors – the vice provost and vice chancellors responsible for instructional support units on each UW campus – will inform decision-making and program development.

There may be modest requests for review of materials outside of meetings and for sharing information with colleagues. However, the majority of your participation will involve attending advisory council meetings and sharing your thoughts on topics brought to you by members of the Teaching@UW Leadership Committee, who will coordinate, set agendas, and attend all meetings.

The term of service for faculty members on the Advisory Council will be two years with an option to renew. Members representing the Faculty Council on Teaching and Learning, UW-IT, and Continuum College will serve on an ongoing basis.

Thank you, in advance, for contributing your expertise to the Teaching@UW support network and for your deep, and long-standing, commitment to elevating teaching and learning at UW. The UW has an opportunity to be a leader among our peers around high-quality, multi-campus instructional support and I look to you to contribute to such leadership.

Sincerely,

Tricia R. Serio
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor, Biochemistry

Updated: November 21, 2024