Finalists announced for the Teaching and Learning Center executive director

The  search committee  for the Teaching and Learning Center executive director has selected three finalists who will interview for the position, and invites you to attend each candidate's open forum presentation.

The Teaching and Learning Center executive director reports to the vice provost for academic affairs and innovation and will provide strategic, innovative and collaborative leadership to advance evidence-informed teaching, instructional and student learning across the university.

The executive director will lead a centralized hub supporting faculty and graduate student development, instructional design, pedagogical innovation and the effective, ethical use of educational technologies. The executive director will work closely with academic leadership, colleges, university committees, student success units, information technology and faculty governance to strengthen teaching and learning across all modalities.

The candidates will focus their open forums on a vision for teaching and learning at K-State.

All open forums will take place from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. on the following dates, in the K-State Student Union Flint Hills Room.

• Sept. 2 — Leslie Bayers, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of the Pacific
• Sept. 10 — Terri Gaeddert, associate dean for academics, Kansas State University
• Sept. 11 — Toby Brooks, director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning, Baylor University

The open forums will be streamed live and archived on the Academic Affairs and Innovation search website, along with candidate application materials and a candidate feedback survey. The K-State community is encouraged to review the application materials and attend each open forum and Q&A session. K-State eID and password are required to access the information.

There will also be an online candidate feedback survey on the search website. Each feedback survey will close at 5 p.m. two days after the candidate's open forum, and the presentation will be removed from the website at that time.  

Oral or written feedback on the candidates may also be directed to members of the search committee. Please provide feedback no later than Tuesday, Sept. 15.

— Submitted by Academic Affairs and Innovation