Recognition for the Teaching Academy

 

The NMSU Teaching Academy has received recognition nationally or internationally a dozen times:

2021

  • The Teaching Academy was featured, along with other faculty development centers across the globe, in The Palgrave Handbook of Academic Professional Development Centers.

2015

  • Our director presented a plenary at Frontiers in Education, an international engineering education group, on building a teaching academy at your university: what a faculty member or administrator can do.

2013

  • Engineering education experts Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent referred to the NMSU Teaching Academy as the place where “Tara Gray has created the most extensive and widely attended faculty development program we have seen” (Chemical Engineering Education, Winter 2013, 47(1), p. 25).
  • The Teaching Academy membership program was one of three model programs selected internationally to be featured at an AAC&U summer institute by Dee Fink, former president of POD Network (the national faculty development organization).

2012

2010

  • Six NMSU faculty members who participated in the Teaching Portfolios Workshop at the Teaching Academy had their portfolios included in the book, The Teaching Portfolio by Peter Seldin, Elizabeth Miller, and Clement Seldin.
  • The Teaching Academy fundraising program was selected by POD Network, the national faculty development organization, as a finalist for their Innovation Award.

2009

  • Our director presented on the member-driven, donor-supported model to Montana State University, New Mexico Highlands University, the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates, and the 66 universities in the SUNY system.

2008

  • The Teaching Academy membership program was selected by POD Network, the national faculty development organization, as a finalist for their Innovation Award.
  • The peer reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission told the Academy staff and the Academy Advisory Board that the Teaching Academy was “the best thing since sliced bread.”

2005

  • The Secretary of Education of Thailand invited the director to give a keynote on founding and sustaining teaching centers using a member-driven, donor-supported model.

2004

  • The Secretary of Education of Thailand sent a contingent of eight Thai delegates to Las Cruces to study the member-driven, donor-supported model for a teaching center.
  • The Teaching Academy was singled out for praise by Dee Fink in his presidential address at POD Network, the national faculty development organization.