Administrative Director, Center for Teaching Excellence Xavier University

Xavier University’s Center of Teaching Excellence (CTE) is seeking applications for an Administrative Director. The Administrative Director provides creative and strategic leadership for a center that has firmly established itself as a vital, energetic, and collaborative place for engaging faculty in significant conversations about teaching. The Administrative Director partners collaboratively with a rotating CTE Faculty Director to determine strategic direction for the Center and to implement relevant and engaging programs.The Administrative Director helps disseminate best practices in pedagogy and fosters faculty participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The Administrative Director collaborates with related areas across campus and fosters alignment of CTE activities with institutional priorities, including its commitments to teaching excellence, inclusive pedagogy, student success, and innovative practices and course delivery methods. The Administrative Director oversees the administrative operations of the CTE, including the budget, physical spaces, support staff and assessment.The CTE’s mission is to support Xavier faculty in creating inclusive, collaborative learning environments that challenge our students intellectually, morally, and spiritually to become engaged scholars and citizens. The Center promotes effective teaching that is reflective, engaging, creative, and informed by both pedagogical and disciplinary knowledge.Hundreds of faculty have participated in Center programs including Faculty Learning Communities, the Diversity and Inclusion Teaching Academy, Persistence Project, Book Discussion Groups, Faculty in Residence course observations, Teaching Mentoring Pairs, the Teaching as Research Program, New Faculty Orientation, workshops, panel discussions, and social events.In addition to the Faculty Director, the CTE is supported through faculty associates and a faculty advisory group, as well as an assistant director position, which is primarily dedicated to an HHMI grant project, and an operations coordinator position that also supports adjacent units.

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