1: Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Communities of Practice

As part of the scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty members study the ways in which they teach and students learn in their disciplines, and how campuses foster this scholarship at an institutional level. A national initiative called the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning constitutes three programs to engage and support individuals, campuses, and disciplinary associations in this form of scholarly work. In To Improve the Academy (Volume 18) this program was discussed. The article this year offers examples of individual faculty and campus initiatives centered on the scholarship of teaching and learning.