I. Goals and Outcomes

The 5-year goals for CIRTL are to:

1. create effective tools and strategies for preparing graduates-through-faculty to use and improve best practices in STEM teaching and learning, with special attention to the needs of diverse student audiences;

2. create graduate-through-faculty learning communities that promote, support, and sustain improvement of teaching and learning practice;

3. develop and implement strategies for transferring the CIRTL Professional Development Program in Teaching and Learning between research universities;

4. produce cohorts of STEM graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are launching new faculty careers at diverse institutions, demonstrably succeeding in promoting STEM learning for all, and actively engaging in improving teaching and learning practice;

5. become the center of a national conversation about professional development in STEM higher education teaching and learning.
The long-range goal of CIRTL is to develop a national STEM faculty with the knowledge, experience, and inclination to forge successful professional careers that include implementing and advancing effective teaching and learning practice for diverse audiences.