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Message from
CIRTL
Coordinator
Introduction
CIRTL@Howard program offers STEM and other Howard University graduate students a series of courses, workshops, and professional development opportunities in collaboration with the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF), Alliance for Graduate Education for the Professoriate (AGEP), and the CIRTL Network.
- Howard University CIRTL program is at the forefront of a national movement of interdisciplinary professional development within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and future faculty preparation in collaboration with CIRTL Network Universities.
CIRTL@Howard Program Description
The CIRTL program offers Howard University graduate and post doc students the opportunity to gain critical skills to enhance their instructional delivery, research capacity, hands-on instructional technology skills and extensive professional development opportunities – our offerings are built upon well developed scientific research methodologies. (http://www.gs.howard.edu/announcements/pr_july6_2006.htm)
CIRTL participants will learn and practice techniques for engaging students in active learning, improve their professional capacity and future placement.
Current CIRTL Network Universities
Howard University
Michigan State University (http://grad.msu.edu/fast/index.htm)
Texas A&M University (http://cirtl.tamu.edu/)
University of Colorado at Boulder (http://www.colorado.edu)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://delta.wisc.edu)
Vanderbilt University (http://www.scienceoutreach.org/cirtl/docs)
Howard University and Network Universities are at the forefront of developing a national strategy to promote the development of a well-prepared national faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching and learning practices for diverse student audiences for the purpose of advancing their professional careers, scholarship and competency.
*The National Science Foundation funds Howard University and Network Universities CIRTL program. (http://www.biology.howard.edu/Funding&Activities.html).
CIRTL@Howard program is for doctoral students with interests in teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education enrolled in the sciences and humanities programs and graduate departments. CIRTL@Howard program complements the efforts of the CIRTL project (an NSF funded project that includes Howard University Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado-Boulder, Texas A & M University and Vanderbilt University).
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