Executive sponsors
- Andrew Harris, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, History, UW Tacoma
- Sharon Jones, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and STEM, UW Bothell
- Phil Reid, Vice Provost for Academic & Student Affairs and Professor, Chemistry, UW Seattle
Leadership committee members
- Deborah Hathaway, Director, Learning and Teaching Collaborative and Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell
- Darcy Janzen, Director, Digital Learning, Executive Director of the Faculty Resource Center and Affiliate Faculty, School of Education, UW Tacoma
- Katie Malcolm, Associate Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, English, College of Arts and Sciences, UW Seattle
- Penelope Moon, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning and Affiliate Faculty, History, College of Arts and Sciences, UW Seattle and School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell
- Marisa Nickle, Senior Director, Strategy & Academic Initiatives, Academic & Student Affairs, UW 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@UW instructional support network. The network consists of a Teaching@UW Executive Sponsor Group and Teaching@UW Leadership Committee, plus a new Teaching@UW 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@UW Executive sponsors charge
Teaching@UW Executive Sponsors include the vice provost and vice chancellors responsible for instructional support units on each UW campus. Executive sponsors are responsible for:
- Developing a strategy for tri-campus coordination that aligns with institutional priorities and is informed by Teaching @UW 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@UW Leadership Committee with ongoing guidance, oversight, and advocacy.
Teaching@UW Leadership Committee (T@LC) charge
The Teaching@UW Leadership Committee membership is comprised of campus leaders that established the Teaching@UW website and serve as pedagogical support leads. Under the direction of Executive Sponsors, and with input from a Teaching@UW Advisory Council and other relevant faculty groups (e.g., the Faculty Council on Teaching & Learning), the Teaching@UW Leadership Committee will:
- Develop and refine a set of common resources (e.g., Teaching@UW website) and programming (e.g., workshops and new faculty orientation to teaching at UW) to support teaching excellence and advance institutional priorities across the UW’s three campuses
- Liaise and coordinate with additional instructional support units (i.e., outlined in this graphic of the current state of UW 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 UW’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@UW 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 UW 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 UW. 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