Strategic Plan
The 2023-2026 strategic plan presents a revised mission statement, key goals for the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning that are in alignment with this mission, and a three-year plan of activities to enable the Center to reach these goals.
In service of our mission, the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning will focus its resources and activities on the following five specific goals:
- Implement strategies that ensure the Center’s growth, sustainability, and relevance.
- Sustain, expand, and deepen educational development opportunities and pedagogical community for faculty and instructors from across the University at all stages of their careers.
- Encourage and support the generation of knowledge about teaching and learning and ways to share this knowledge with others at the University of Chicago and beyond
- Enhance support for a diverse undergraduate student body to be independent learners in and outside of the classroom.
- Sustain and develop opportunities to promote the educational and professional development of graduate student teachers at the University and in their future careers.
CCTL Impact, By the Numbers 2023-2024
This is a broad overview of the UChicago teaching community's engagement in CCTL programs, initiatives, and events during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Key Statistics
In the 2023-2024 academic year, the CCTL had:
- 13399 visits to the redesigned CCTL website.
- 872 total subscribers to the CCTL newsletters.
- 104 events hosted and facilitated by CCTL staff.
- 24 total Pedagogy and Associate Pedagogy Fellows.
- 24 total Graduate Fellows and Teaching Consultants.
- 8 cohort-based programs for faculty and grad students.
CCTL Engagements
In the past academic year, 797 unique individuals attended an event or completed a consultation at the CCTL. These individuals included:
- 73 Faculty
- 307 Other Academic Appointments (OAA)
- 46 Staff
- 6 External Participants
- 352 Graduate Students
- 13 Undergraduate Students
These 797 individuals engaged a total of 1789 times by attending events and/or consultations, which breaks down to:
- 510 engagements with graduate programming, which provides graduate students the opportunity to develop their teaching practice.
- 437 engagements with workshops & discussions, which includes events that explore the latest research and practices on teaching and learning.
- 363 engagements in one-on-one services, which are confidential consultations about teaching and assessment.
- 198 engagements with communities and colloquia, which encourage educators to collaborative explore and discuss their teaching, with the goal of developing new practices or curricula.
- 146 engagements through campus partnerships, which are pedagogical opportunities designed for, or in collaboration with units, divisions, and schools.
- 119 engagements with forums & symposia, which are venues for the exchanges of ideas and perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education.
- 16 engagements with undergraduate programming, which prepares undergraduate students with research-informed practices to support their learning.