Hi Tressa,
Congrats on the new position! Our campus has a separate Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), Center for Faculty Leadership, and department of Research & Innovation, which it sounds like maybe you're wanting to combine in one area under the library!
We work very closely with these departments, but the relationship we have with CTE is I think more unique. Although it is not "owned" by the library, in the past few years, we reorganized so our Dean of the Library is now also the Associate Provost of Teaching, Learning & Library Services, a unit that now includes the library, CTE, and our distance/online learning department. We share administration and many resources, and when our library expansion is complete this year, we will all be co-located in the library.
I think this reorganization has made it so the library has a bigger profile and more obvious connection to the teaching side of campus. We do a ton of collaborative programming with CTE, including a faculty development program we're just launching this week. Feel free to take a look at our unit and CTE websites if you want to dig further into our model!
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Brittany O'Neill (she/her/Ms.)
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University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Original Message:
Sent: Feb 06, 2024 02:42 PM
From: Tressa Snyder
Subject: Center for Research & Teaching Excellence
Dear Colleagues,
I have just begun a new position as Dean of the Library at Allegheny College. One of my first projects is to build a Center of Research &Teaching Excellence (which is attached to our next Strategic Plan) in our library. The thinking is that this center will help areas of campus (research composition projects, instructional design, faculty development, etc.) to come together in one location for support and collaboration.
I am looking for thoughts/recommendations/ideas/examples of these types of centers in your libraries. Also, what has worked, what doesn't work?
Thanks in advance!
Best,
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Tressa Snyder
Dean of the Library
Allegheny College
Pelletier Library
She/Her/Hers
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