Mission Statement

With a continuing goal of fostering student engagement and success, our mission is to provide faculty and academic programs at California State University Dominguez Hills with resources and services that sustain excellence in a dynamic teaching and learning environment, and other forms of professional development in our diverse, multicultural setting. The Center is dedicated to promotion of ongoing improvement and reflection through providing faculty with opportunities and resources for professional development in teaching, scholarly activity, and service.

To achieve these goals the Center works in partnership with faculty, staff and administration, contributing to the achievement of the CSUDH Strategic Plan…Toward 2010,Goal 3, Objective 1: “Identify, disseminate, and implement ‘best practices,’ including service learning in academic programs that will maximize learning for a diverse student population” (CSUDH Strategic Plan…Toward 2010).

1. Share and disseminate information on effective, learner-centered teaching methods that foster student engagement in active learning.
   
2. Provide support and teaching/learning mentoring services to faculty by sponsoring individual and group activities that offer faculty the opportunity to examine and critically reflect upon their pedagogy including evaluation of teaching performance.
   
3. Promote professional development and renewal by providing grant support dependent upon availability and recognition for faculty efforts to improve or extend pedagogical skills and scholarship activity including integration of new instructional methodologies and emerging technologies into the teaching/learning environment.
   
4. Sustain “best practices” in the assessment and evaluation of student learning outcomes, as an essential component of the continuous improvement of academic programs.
   
5. Foster networking among faculty and interdisciplinary collaboration focused on student engagement and success.
   
6. Use ongoing evaluation findings to improve CTL resources and services.
   
7. Serve as resource center for faculty who wish to integrate instructional methodologies and emerging technologies into their teaching.
   
8. Promote good practice in the evaluation of teaching performance.