About the CTE
About the CTE
Welcome to the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and our online resources.
The CTE supports a vibrant and diverse community of teachers and learners at Columbia College Chicago by fostering a culture of collaboration and reflective conversation. We believe that teaching should be as active and engaged a pursuit as learning; and that excellence in teaching is less a goal to be achieved once and for all than a continual process of reflection, innovation, and growth. The main activities of the CTE, therefore, address teachers as lifelong learners.
We are committed to working with faculty, departments, academic schools, academic offices, and research centers on campus to develop programs and services that are responsive to the different needs and interests of the Columbia College community. Our collaborative approach honors and builds on the expertise and talents of our faculty, while helping them negotiate how best to meet the evolving needs of new generations of students.
From our home in the Office of Academic Affairs and the Faculty Center (600 South Michigan, 8th Floor), the CTE offers an array of workshops, seminars, and master classes designed to support faculty as teachers, as scholars, and as professionals. We also administer several grants and fellowships and provide one-to-one consultations on all aspects of teaching and professional development.
The CTE is committed to promoting and supporting all forms of civic engagement including academic Service-Learning and community-based learning. We provide administrative oversight for the Provost’s College-wide, collaborative, civic engagement initiative Critical Encounters and partner with Student Affairs and other centers and departments on and off campus to further the mission of the College.
For ten years, the CTE has supported the continuing efforts of all Columbia faculty members to become more informed, confident, creative, and reflective practitioners of the art of teaching, and as we look toward the next ten, we invite you to join us in this ambitious and worthy goal.
-Lott Hill and Soo La Kim, Directors
The CTE supports a vibrant and diverse community of teachers and learners at Columbia College Chicago by fostering a culture of collaboration and reflective conversation. We believe that teaching should be as active and engaged a pursuit as learning; and that excellence in teaching is less a goal to be achieved once and for all than a continual process of reflection, innovation, and growth. The main activities of the CTE, therefore, address teachers as lifelong learners.
We are committed to working with faculty, departments, academic schools, academic offices, and research centers on campus to develop programs and services that are responsive to the different needs and interests of the Columbia College community. Our collaborative approach honors and builds on the expertise and talents of our faculty, while helping them negotiate how best to meet the evolving needs of new generations of students.
From our home in the Office of Academic Affairs and the Faculty Center (600 South Michigan, 8th Floor), the CTE offers an array of workshops, seminars, and master classes designed to support faculty as teachers, as scholars, and as professionals. We also administer several grants and fellowships and provide one-to-one consultations on all aspects of teaching and professional development.
The CTE is committed to promoting and supporting all forms of civic engagement including academic Service-Learning and community-based learning. We provide administrative oversight for the Provost’s College-wide, collaborative, civic engagement initiative Critical Encounters and partner with Student Affairs and other centers and departments on and off campus to further the mission of the College.
For ten years, the CTE has supported the continuing efforts of all Columbia faculty members to become more informed, confident, creative, and reflective practitioners of the art of teaching, and as we look toward the next ten, we invite you to join us in this ambitious and worthy goal.
-Lott Hill and Soo La Kim, Directors