Services to Academic Units

Besides working with individuals, the Kaneb Center is available to work with departments, colleges and other academic units in projects such as a course redesign or grant proposal. Listed below are examples of some of our past efforts in this area.

Planning

In Biology and Accountancy, groups of faculty who teach sections of a particular course asked us to meet with them as they planned course revisions.

A group of language-teaching faculty formed an advisory committee and asked us to facilitate its work of making recommendations about language instruction at Notre Dame.

Presentations

We are happy to present workshops or host one-hour meetings for academic units. We have visited a number of department meetings to discuss general issues of teaching and learning in a specific discipline. We have also worked with college teaching committees and led or helped sponsor department-specific workshops.

Consultation

For example, we met with the Anthropology department's untenured faculty as a group for one hour and then with each individual for one hour. During these meetings we discussed teaching, time management and TCEs. The goal was to help faculty apportion time between research and teaching and to develop teaching methods that are time-efficient and that result in maximum student learning.

The College Council of the College of Business Administration requested our help as the discussed ways of evaluating teaching for promotion and tenure.

We have been involved with a variety of grants. Our role is to help the investigators plan to assess student learning that results from curricular or pedagogical innovations supported by the grant.

We have met with serveral departments about evaluating student learning for accreditation.

The Center also offers Individual Consultations