Teaching & Learning Task Group

FACT 2 Task Group

Task Group Name

Teaching and Learning

Stakeholders (who is the final input intended for?)

         SUNY Provost

         CPD

         Campus TLC Directors

         FACT 2 Reps

         Academic technology support organizations

         Professional development organization

         Innovative instruction strategic planning task force

Goals (what does this group hope to do?)

Through the FACTT committee to advise the SUNY Provost about support and resources for teaching, learning and its scholarship within the system by:

         Documenting the current state of resources and support provided at both the individual campuses and through SUNY admin.

         Identifying large scale needs not currently met.

         Recommending current and potential mechanisms to best aggregate resources across the system including:

o         Regional support structures

o         Academic discipline focused sharing across campuses.

         Developing and sharing a set of best practices that could be implemented at individual campuses.

Expected Outcomes/Deliverables:

         Document existing support organizations at the campuses and contacts for each.

         Determine the current state of support at each of the campuses for Teaching & Learning.

o         Design a set of appropriate metrics.

o         Develop and distribute survey based on metrics.

         Based on survey results

o         Determine where common areas of weakness exist and how they might be reinforced by cross campus or central resources.

o         Determine areas of strength at each campus that other campuses could benefit from.

o         Recommendations for minimum standards of faculty development for a campus

         Determine what information would be useful to share between the campuses and the best mechanism to mediate this exchange (e.g. SUNY Teaching and Learning web site).

         Present report to SUNY Provost on survey findings.

         Present report at CIT session

o         Survey findings

o         Proposed web site structure and maintenance plan.

o         Models of faculty development support at campuses

o         If a hosting solution has been found demonstrate web/Wiki site.

Team

         aaron_schorr@fitnyc.edu

         adsit@buffalo.edu

         alexandra.pickett@suny.edu

         apearlma@brockport.edu

         Beez.Schell@fredonia.edu

         c.prylo@hvcc.edu

         chiangjf@oneonta.edu

         cprice@brockport.edu

         Diane.Gal@esc.edu

         Frank.Fowler@stonybrook.edu

         gglynn@sbumail.stonybrook.edu (Chair)

         greg.ketcham@oswego.edu

         hillro@sunysuffolk.edu

         horowilg@sunysccc.edu

         jjensen@buffalo.edu

         john.kane@oswego.edu

         JZelenak@uamail.albany.edu

         kahnd@sunysuffolk.edu

         Keith.Landa@purchase.edu

         kelderr@newpaltz.edu

         knauthmg@farmingdale.edu

         kscalzo@cpd.suny.edu

         lmraposo@cpd.suny.edu

         markmcbri@gmail.com

         mcmillse@buffalostate.edu

         millercc@potsdam.edu

         miriam.deitsch@farmingdale.edu

         peaslejw@corning-cc.edu

         russ@sunyit.edu

         stephens@buffalo.edu (Lurker  )

         Steven@uamail.albany.edu

Benefit or value to the SUNY System and SUNY Campuses

(Statement about what value this will bring us – cost savings, member benefits, new revenue, efficiencies in staff time, etc – please try to quantify this as much as possible)

         Improve the quality of teaching and student learning at the campuses.

o         Increased retention and recruitment of students.

o         Number of major course redesign projects completed across the system.

o         Number of pedagogy/assessment grants and publications

o         Number of interdisciplinary collaborations in teaching.

         Reputational survey scores among students for teaching quality

         More efficient use of resources across the system.

o         Use statistics of shared resources such as webinars etc.

o         Cost sharing across campuses for speakers etc

o         Number of regional events

         Increased work satisfaction among faculty.

o         Retention rates

         Improve SUNY reputation as a great teaching institution.

Tasks, Deliverables, and Timeline

(Identify the tasks, deliverables, and timeline for the work of the Task Group, including who has responsibility for each.)

Assumptions

(Assumptions = statements that must be taken to be true for project planning to begin.  Include a detailed description of each assumption, including how it affects the overall project plan.)

         SUNY values and wants to increase its reputation as a great teaching institution.

         SUNY will provide staff and financial support to increase this quality

         Individual campuses reward teaching appropriately and hire good teachers.

         Campuses will welcome collaborations rather than being threatened by them.

Communication Plan and Engagement of Stakeholders

(Who needs to be informed about progress of the Task Group, what information do they need and when, and how will the FACT2 reps, Council, and Stakeholders be engaged to provide input)

         Develop a collaborative online community of some type.

         Open access SUNY teaching and learning journal

         Presentation(s) at CIT and other SUNY conferences

         Post information to listserves such at FacDev, TOA and EdTOA

         Travelling promotional visit to each campus.

o         Central resources

o         Collaborative mechanisms

o         Visit local resource personnel and administration.