University of Alabama 
Center for Teaching and Learning  
The Center for Teaching and Learning plays an integral role in the University’s plan for academic excellence. The mission of the CTL is to positively impact the teaching and learning process through the design and delivery of academic support services for students. To carry out this mission, we foster collaborative relationships among the CTL, academic departments, and faculty on campus.

Augsburg College 
Center for Teaching and Learning  
The goals of the Augsburg College Center for Faculty Development have been to assist faculty members in their professional development. Professional development includes the improvement of teaching, the enhancement of student learning, and the facilitation of faculty research and other scholarly activities. The Center also works to encourage faculty leadership development and promotes opportunities for faculty to shape expectations of their own academic roles, rewards, and responsibilities.

University of California, Irvine 
Instructional Resources Center
The IRC provides a variety of sources: consultations, technical help, as well as a comprehensive resource guide to teaching at UCI.

Carnegie Mellon University
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
The center helps both faculty members and graduate students improve their teaching practices by gaining an understanding of cognitive and educational principles of teaching and learning. Educators are encouraged to reflect, and receive criticism of their course design and classroom performance.

University of Colorado, Boulder 
Faculty Teaching Excellence Program
The global goal of the FTEP is the improvement of undergraduate and graduate education. Within this overall mission, the FTEP has a number of more specific objectives:

• to work with faculty to create an environment that encourages learning for both faculty and students
• to foster a professional dialogue among all faculty concerning effective learning
• to bring pedagogical research and useful teaching tips to the attention of faculty
• to engage in research on learning and teaching

Cornell University
Center for Teaching Excellence
On July 1, 2008, Cornell launched the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). It encompasses three of the units of the former Center for Learning and Teaching: the International Teaching Assistant Program, the Teaching Assistant Program, and Faculty Program. The CTE emphasizes the importance of life-long learning for the development of outstanding teachers, including faculty members and teaching assistants. The center strives to strengthen teaching across campus in a multitude of ways, from disseminating research-based best-teaching practices to ensuring that instructors have the support and resources needed to help their students learn better. These programs support graduate students as they begin their careers as well as faculty members as they continually aspire to achieve excellence in teaching.

Duke University 
Center for Instructional Technology
The Center for Instructional Technology supports the academic mission of Duke University by helping faculty find innovative ways to use technology to achieve their teaching goals. Drawing on expertise in both technology and pedagogy, CIT staff assist faculty with projects, share information across the university about effective practices and examine the effect of technology on teaching and learning.

George Washington University 
Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning 
The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) supports the instructional development of GW faculty and teaching assistants. Through one-on-one consultations, workshop series, classroom-based research, grants, online resources, and a Teaching Studio, the Center focuses its efforts on the effective integration of instructional technologies in teaching and learning.  

University of Georgia 
Office of Instructional Support & Development
Teaching is promoted as a fundamental enterprise at UGA through numerous campus-wide activities. These include instructional grants,consultation services, faculty and TA development programs, publications, activities planning, and instructional resources and media services. In addition, seminars, workshops, and conferences that address a wide range of topics are offered throughout the year. Since its inception, OISD has sought to promote vitality among faculty and administration and to foster an institutional climate that reinforces excellence in teaching and learning.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Center for Teaching Excellence
The Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a campus-wide service unit responsible for assisting faculty, academic units, and teaching assistants in improving instruction. The staff consults and advises on a wide variety of instructional issues. The Center for Teaching Excellence is divided into four areas: 

University of Iowa 
Center for Teaching
The mission of the Center for Teaching, as approved during the process of its creation, is to “promote and support efforts to enhance instruction at The University of Iowa.” In pursuit of this mission, the Center has established four overlapping goals. The Center strives to:

• Support and promote the development of teaching skills.
• Strengthen the culture of teaching.
• Serve as a symbol of the University’s commitment to teaching.
• Influence policy discussions in ways that support the development of an excellent teaching and learning environment

Iowa State University 
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
CELT’s mission is to support, promote, and enhance teaching effectiveness and student learning; encourage scholarship of teaching and learning; communicate the importance of teaching and learning to both internal and external audiences; and serve as a catalyst for learning-centered education.

Kansas State University 
Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Kansas State University, formerly known as the Office of Educational Advancement, was established in 1993 by Provost Coffman to work in a variety of ways to maintain a priority position for undergraduate teaching and learning on the University’s agenda. The University’s long-range strategic plan and the statement of role and aspirations both call for increased institutional emphasis upon the improvement of undergraduate academic programs. The Center champions these themes centrally and coordinates the exchange of ideas on undergraduate teaching and learning among faculty and administrators across our campus community.

Louisiana State University 
Centers for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
The CELT advances educational excellence at Louisiana State University by providing leadership, programs, and resources designed to meet the diverse instructional needs of faculty, teaching assistants, departments, and colleges. Three CELT units serve the University. The Center for Faculty Development advances the expert practice of college teaching and promotes teaching as a scholarly activity. The Center for Electronic Learning enhances student learning through innovative uses of instructional technology. The Center for Assessment and Evaluation promotes institutional effectiveness by providing support for assessment and evaluation programs, methodologies, and services.

University of Maryland University College 
Center for Teaching and Learning
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is to promote teaching excellence and enhance teaching effectiveness in order to maximize the quality of teaching and learning at University of Maryland University College (UMUC).

University of Michigan 
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) is dedicated to the support and advancement of learning and teaching at the University of Michigan. Staff at the Center work collaboratively with faculty, Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs), and the academic administration to develop a University culture that values and rewards teaching, respects and supports individual differences among learners, and encourages the creation of learning environments in which diverse students can’ learn and excel.

University of North Carolina, Asheville 
Center for Teaching and Learning 
The UNC-Asheville Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is dedicated to the following primary objectives:

• to promote excellence in teaching
• to promote excellence in student learning both inside and outside the classroom
• to encourage and promote utilization of current technological opportunities wherever appropriate.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Center for Teaching and Learning
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to support teaching and learning at all levels and in all contexts in which instruction occurs in the university. In pursuing this goal, the Center works to enhance the intellectual climate, promote open and ongoing dialogue among all members of the University community, and serves as an advocate for academic initiatives, as these enterprises enhance teaching and learning.

Northwestern University 
Searle Center for Teaching Excellence
The Center promotes an ongoing discussion about teaching and learning matters, striving both to facilitate that conversation and to contribute to it intellectually. It seeks primarily to treat teaching as scholarship, as serious intellectual work that is as important as the research that faculty members produce, and to think of college courses as windows on the way professors define and practice their disciplines. Through its grants program, the Center supports faculty members who wish to experiment. It also offers a number of services to help individuals collect, analyze, and evaluate information about the ways they teach.

University of Oregon 
Teaching Effectiveness Program
The University of Oregon’s Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP) works with UO educators to assess and improve their teaching. TEP offers GTF training, videotaping assessment services, troubleshooting consultations, instructional technology and teaching portfolio assistance to the UO academic community. TEP also maintains an extensive library of education resources, many of which are available online.

Pennsylvania State University
Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
Organizationally within the Office of Undergraduate Education and International Programs, the Institute has University-wide responsibilities to promote and provide opportunities for the sharing of knowledge gained about the teaching and learning process; promote the combined uses of effective educational testing, learning assessment instruments, and teaching effectiveness feedback as important to the improvement of student learning; and promote sound teaching practices to enhance student learning.

Providence College 
Center for Teaching Excellence
The Center’s mission is “to advance the cause of college teaching by working with faculty members to cultivate an institutional climate in which teaching is highly valued and which promotes excellence in student learning.” The Center accomplishes its mission through various programs, activities, and services.

Tulane University 
Lilly Program
Each year six or seven full-time tenure-track faculty are selected to be teaching fellows during their second or third year at Tulane. Since its inception twenty-five young faculty members from Tulane units serving undergraduates have been fellows, in addition to the six in the current year. In the year of their Lilly fellowship fellows develop (the “project”) a new course or revamp an existing one, participate in bi-monthly meetings on teaching, participate in a number of workshops on college teaching presented by “outside” consultants. Each fellow is yoked with a mentor–a senior faculty member of established research accomplishment and high teaching proficiency, in the fellow’s or a related field–who assists the fellow with the project, exchanges classroom visits with the fellow, and participates in Program-sponsored events.

Vanderbilt University 
Center for Teaching
The Center’s two main missions are to stimulate dialogue about teaching excellence and to help members of the Vanderbilt teaching community gather, analyze and apply new teaching strategies.

University of Washington 
Center for Instructional Development and Research
The center provides information and strategies on preparing to teach, the assessment of teaching as well as Instructional support and programs especially for TAs and ITAs

Southwestern Michigan University 
Center for Teaching and Learning
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to support faculty members in their efforts toward the achievement of professional excellence, with a special focus on teaching excellence. The American Association of University Professors originally negotiated the existence of the office in 1978. The Center helps faculty members, graduate teaching assistants, and academic departments through a variety of programs, services, and resources.

University of Virginia 
Teaching Resource Center
The Teaching Resource Center (TRC), established in 1990, offers a number of services and resource materials designed to enhance the teaching abilities of faculty and teaching assistants at the University of Virginia. The TRC also administers several special programs, recognizing the skills and accomplishments of faculty and aiding in the development of courses.

Temple University
Awareness of Teaching and Teaching Improvement Center
The ATTIC website is a portal that provides support, services, and resources to assist faculty, teaching assistants, and departments for the continued improvement of learning and teaching. ATTIC fosters faculty development by the following activities and resources to promote a culture that values excellence in teaching.

University of Vermont
Center for Teaching and Learning
The center for teaching and learning provides a variety of resources on teaching methods, teaching with technology, instructional grants as well as links to other helpful online resources.