Center for Inclusive Excellence in Teaching
Our Mission
The Center for Inclusive Excellence in Teaching (CIET) is dedicated to fostering inclusive teaching and cultivating transformational learning experiences to enable all students to flourish. We engage with faculty and colleagues across the college to enhance reflective and innovative teaching practices, support pedagogical inquiry, and promote student-centered pedagogical practices that are grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Our Values
Inclusive Excellence in Teaching
Effective teaching is realized through the unequivocal inclusion and engagement of our diverse identities and lived experiences, and the cultivation of an environment where all students have a sense of belonging, are valued, and can flourish.
Teaching as Reflective Practice
Effective teaching fosters impactful learning through ongoing critical reflection and consideration of our assumptions about how students learn, to guide our continual efforts to enhance student learning.
Teaching as a Scholarly Activity
Effective teaching is informed through ongoing evidence-based inquiry supported through exchange and feedback within and across the disciplines.
Explore CIET's Programs
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Students-as-Partners
Students-as-Partners (SaP) is a pedagogical partnership program in which faculty-student partners collaborate on the revision of a course to create teaching and learning experiences that are inclusive and critically engaging for all students. Students who have previously taken the course contribute their experiential perspectives to work with faculty on redesigning course components, and be attentive to the interactions between students and faculty and amongst students.
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Faculty Learning Communities
Faculty Reading Groups (FRG) explore the pedagogy of inclusive excellence in a chosen topic area through critical analysis of the literature and other resources. The FRG is a peer learning community, organized and facilitated by faculty who are interested in engaging in critical discourse and synthesis with faculty and staff colleagues who bring an interdisciplinary breadth of insights to the topic of exploration.
Faculty Liaison Network
Every academic department is represented by a Faculty Liaison (FL) to regularly communicate their department's teaching interests or needs to CIET. FLs also keep their department colleagues apprised of CIET events, programs, and services. FL network meetings provide opportunities for cross-departmental exchange on teaching and learning, and the identification of shared needs or potential collaborations.
Faculty Liaisons
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CIET Staff
Kathy Takayama, PhD
Director and Faculty, Center for Inclusive Excellence in Teaching
Email: ktakayama@holycross.edu
Office: Smith Hall 526
Phone: 508-793-2262
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Bio
Marjorie (Maggie) Miller
Operations and Project Support, Center for Inclusive Excellence in Teaching
Email: mamiller1@holycross.edu
Office: Smith Hall 522
Phone: 508-793-3434
Pronouns: she/her/hers