Established in 2001, the Center for Teaching Excellence supports and nurtures effective teaching and learning at New York University. The Center promotes an ongoing, university-wide discussion about teaching and learning matters, striving both to facilitate and contribute to that conversation, and provides practical resources to members of the NYU community to enhance their effectiveness in the classroom and laboratory. We seek primarily to treat teaching as serious intellectual work that is integrally related to, and supportive of, the research conducted by faculty, and to think of college courses as windows on, and expressions of, the way faculty define and practice their disciplines and inter- disciplines.

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Changes at the Center

Whitney Steen, the CTE Administrator, has been promoted in recognition of her hard work and dedication, particularly during the last year of transition at the Center.

Jennifer Piatek has joined CTE as administrative support for the Spring semester. Having formerly worked in Wagner and SCPS, Jennifer brings good knowledge of NYU to the Center during a time of expansion.

Alexandra Dimitri, Ph.D. will be joining CTE in Spring 2008. An award-winning teacher while a NYU TA, Alex will be coordinating global activities for CTE.