The University of Maryland's Center for Teaching Excellence is an initiative of the Office of the Associate Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. Its purpose is to support the campus-wide efforts to enhance and reform undergraduate education and to offer tangible assistance to individual faculty and TAs as well as to the departments and colleges in which they work.

The Center for Teaching Excellence provides:

• A range of campus-wide Workshops and Conversations related to teaching and learning issues;

• Assistance to departments and colleges in organizing and implementing faculty teaching workshops, TA training activities, and evaluation/support strategies related to improving teaching;

• Consultation with individuals on particular areas of concern in teaching and learning, research into teaching practice, and implementation of innovative teaching-learning strategies;

• A regular newsletter, CTE's Teaching and Learning News, which covers events and developments related to teaching across campus;

• An electronic listserv for the exchange of ideas about teaching using the University electronic mail system; and a library of video and print resources on teaching and learning.

CTE also facilitates a professional development program for graduate teaching assistants University Teaching and Learning Program, as well as the Undergraduate Teaching Assistants program, the Lilly-CTE Fellows program, and the Instructional Improvement Grants program which supports innovations in teaching.

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