Twenty-sixth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

This focused discussion will engage participants in ways to shift their campus culture to improve student learning. Campus culture can play a significant role in the way faculty approach teaching and learning and thus warrants thorough analysis as a way to improve student learning (Gillespie, 2010). Working from our own administrative experience as teaching and learning leaders, we focus on how leadership and cultural changes can further or hinder faculty professional development and student learning outcomes. Throughout the discussion we will focus on the following areas of interest: shifting faculty career focus to the teacher-scholar model, implementing new structural approaches to part-time faculty development, reorganization of teaching and learning center, administrative support and recognition, developing faculty buy-in of cultural changes.