X . Summary


The proposed Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning will create, implement, and transfer on a national scale an interdisciplinary program of graduate-through-faculty professional development in STEM higher education. CIRTL is founded on the concept of teaching-as-research implemented within a learning community. We believe that the combination of these two powerful ideas will significantly increase the number of STEM faculty who use effective teaching practices and who establish career-long commitments to improving STEM undergraduate education. The ultimate achievement of CIRTL will be to contribute to the creation of a national STEM faculty that enables all students to achieve STEM literacy, whose teaching enhances recruitment into STEM careers, and whose leadership ensures the continued advance of STEM education.