UC Berkeley

Center for Teaching & Learning

Personnel: 9FTE

Year Founded: 2012

Mission:  The Center for Teaching and Learning partners with faculty to inspire, enrich, and innovate Berkeley’s collective practice and pursuit of teaching excellence.

Organizational location: Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)

Website:  https://teaching.berkeley.edu/

Contact(s) for more information:  teaching@berkeley.edu

GSI Teaching & Resource Center

Personnel: 4.83 FTE

Year Founded: 1989 

Major Foci:  Preparation of GSIs for teaching at Berkeley and for the teaching they will do in future academic and non-academic careers

Organizational Location:  Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division

Website:  https://gsi.berkeley.edu

Contact for more information:  Linda von Hoene, lvh@berkeley.edu, Director and Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Professional Development

UC Davis

Center for Educational Effectiveness 

Personnel: 10.6 FTE, 8-12 Fellows/GSRs  

Year Founded: 2015 (merger of a Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the STEM-focused group. Descendant of the Teaching Resource Center from early 1990s) 

Major foci:  To promote and support effective learning for all UCD students. 

Organizational Location:  Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education 

URL(s): https://cee.ucdavis.edu, assessment.ucdavis.edu, sotl.ucdavis.edu 

Contact(s) for more information: cee@ucdavis.edu

Kem Saichaie, Director kemsaichaie@ucdavis.edu  

Kim Heintz, Communication and Operations Manager kheintz@ucdavis.edu 

UC Merced

Teaching Commons

Personnel: 12 FTE, 0 Fellows/GSRs  

Year Founded:  2020 (Incorporating the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning founded 2016, previously the Center for Research on Teaching Excellence founded in 2010, Academic and Emerging Technologies, English Language Institute, and Students Assessing Teaching and Learning)

Mission:  Our Mission is to provide a centralized physical and virtual location for programs, resources, and services focused on delivering student-centered, innovative, and high-quality learning experiences to improve student outcomes. Teaching Commons is held by three pillars: 

• Pedagogy – the development and implementation of high-impact, innovative evidence-based teaching practices

• Academic Technology – training and adoption of effective and emerging technologies for teaching

• Education Research – evaluation and investigation to improve programs, teaching, and learning

Organizational Location: Kolligian Library Suite 310  

URL(s): https://teach.ucmerced.edu/

Contact(s) for more information: cetl@ucmerced.edu

Dr. James Zimmerman, Director of the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning

Dr. Joan Holmquist, Director of Academic and Emerging Technologies

Dr. Jackie Shay, Associate Director of the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning, jshay@ucmerced.edu 

UC Riverside

XCITE Exploration Center for Innovative Teaching and Engagement

Personnel: 12 FTE, 2 Fellows/GSRs  

Year Founded:  2020

Mission:  The XCITE mission is to partner in creating innovative and impactful teaching, learning, and research solutions that drive academic and inclusive excellence.

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Organizational Location:   Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education

URL(s): https://xcite.ucr.edu/ https://teaching.ucr.edu/

Contact(s) for more information: (xcite@ucr.edu)

Dr. Richard Edwards, Director for the Center for Teaching & Learning
Israel Fletes, Director of Academic Technology
Nathaniel Wildes, Interactive Instructional Media Manager

UC San Diego

Teaching + Learning Commons' Engaged Teaching Hub

Personnel: 7.5 FTE, 8-10 Graduate Teaching Consultants  

Year Founded:  2015

Mission:  The Engaged Teaching team collaborates with UC San Diego educators: departments, faculty, and graduate student instructors to design student-centered, evidence-based learning experiences in the classrooms and in other learning spaces. At the center of this work is the framework of Teaching for Social Justice. Full mission linked here.

Featured impact: https://commons.ucsd.edu/what/impact.html 

Organizational Location:  Executive Vice Chancellor

URL(s): engagedteaching.ucsd.edu 

Contact(s) for more information: engagedteaching@ucsd.edu; commons@ucsd.edu 

Dr. David Ruiter, Faculty Director, Teaching + Learning Commons

Dr. Carolyn Sandoval, Associate Director, Teaching + Learning Commons and Director of Engaged Teaching

UC Santa Barbara

The Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) 

The office of Teaching and Learning encompasses two centers that support faculty and graduate students' teaching: the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research and Learning (CITRAL) and the Office of Instructional Consultation (OIC) 

URL(s): https://otl.ucsb.edu

Center for Innovative Teaching Research and Learning (CITRAL)

Personnel: 3 FTE, 2 Fellows/GSRs  

Year Founded:  2017

Mission:  CITRAL is a research hub that promotes and supports inclusive, equitable, and just teaching and learning. We collaborate with others to systematically study teaching and learning and develop evidence-based programs and innovations across campus. CITRAL's activities put into practice UCSB Teaching and Learning Initiatives' Collaborative Principles.

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Organizational Location:   Faculty Director reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor

URL(s): https://www.citral.ucsb.edu/

Contact(s) for more information: citral@ltsc.ucsb.edu

Linda Adler-Kassner, Faculty Director

Maggie Safronova, Associate Director

Office of Instructional Consultation (OIC)

Personnel: 5 FTE, 6 Fellows/GSRs  

Year Founded:  1975

Mission: Instructional Development is a service organization supporting the instructional mission of the campus. Its activities directly address the major goal in the campus' formal Academic Planning Statement, "Ensure Excellence in Both Undergraduate and Graduate Instruction". The mission of Instructional Development is to foster a climate for excellence in instruction, which parallels the climate for excellence in research, within the context of a world-class institution of higher education. The mission is addressed by following a model which has evolved over the past two decades. The organizational structure and functioning of Instructional Development reflect the model. The organization substantially impacts the quality of instruction offered at UCSB. It is able to address comprehensively and effectively the needs of a faculty that teaches a tremendous range of subject matter, using a wide range of teaching philosophies, methods, styles, and technologies. The key elements required to address effectively this diversity of faculty needs include instructional consulting and evaluation; technical media production support; and technical media display support. All are provided by Instructional Development.

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Organizational Location:   The Executive Director reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor

URL(s): https://id.ucsb.edu

Contact(s) for more information: mailto://help@id.ucsb.edu

Coordinating Team: Lisa Berry, Ph.D., Mindy Colin, Ph.D., Olga Faccani, Ph.D., Mark Rosenberg, Ph.D.

UC Santa Cruz

The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC)

Personnel: 13 full time staff, 2 half time staff (with concurrent lecturer appointments), 1 Faculty Director, 1 Assistant Faculty Director, 2 half time Faculty Associate Directors, 3 Faculty Associates, 1-2 GSRs  (see website for more information)

Year Founded:  2016 (restructured in 2023)

Mission:  Created to both honor and renew the university’s longstanding tradition of outstanding teaching and bold educational experimentation, the Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) serves all members of the UCSC teaching community. The TLC uses research and equity-minded practices to strengthen the culture of teaching, promote student success and equitable outcomes, and support teacher-leaders at UC Santa Cruz, a thriving minority-serving research institution. We collaborate with campus educators and other partners to inspire the exploration of innovative and accessible teaching practices and technologies that advance equity, foster deep learning, and increase student engagement.

Organizational Location:   Division of Academic Affairs

URL(s): https://tlc.ucsc.edu/

Contact(s) for more information: tlc@ucsc.edu