SoTL at Western calls for a university-wide commitment and collaboration among faculty, administration, staff and students in initiating and continuing systematic conversation, reflection, research and dissemination about teaching and learning that is made public and open to critique in order to establish the scholarship of teaching and learning as research that is as institutionally valued and rewarded as traditional disciplinary scholarship with the ultimate goals of improved student learning, teaching effectiveness and enjoyment, faculty development and the creation of a deeply collegial academic community of and for teaching and learning.

Faculty Fellows for SoTL
The SoTL initiative at Western Carolina University is led by Senior Fellow for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Dr. John Habel, and the Faculty Fellow for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Dr. Laura Cruz. They are available to assist faculty with designing research to examine their own teaching practice.