Center for Innovative Instruction & Scholarship

The Center for Innovative Instruction & Scholarship (CIIS) is a part of the Division of Academic Affairs. The overall goal of CIIS is to assist faculty, staff, and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) in creating innovative and active learning environments and produce collaborative scholarship on teaching and learning. CIIS activities will promote best practices in teaching and learning that celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusiveness that lead to student success. CIIS’s work is guided by the scholarship on teaching and learning that is in turn grounded in the research in the field of faculty educational development. Opportunities include orientations and training for new faculty and TAs, mini-workshops, faculty institutes, conferences and learning communities, online resources, classroom observations and consultations focused on formative assessment for continuous improvement of teaching and learning.