CIRTL Core Values

Learning-through-diversity: Learning-through-diversity capitalizes on the rich array of experiences, backgrounds, and skills among undergraduates and graduates-through-faculty to enhance the learning of all. It recognizes that excellence and diversity are necessarily intertwined.

Teaching-as-research: Teaching-as-research is the deliberate, systematic, and reflective use of research methods by instructors to develop and implement teaching practices that advance the learning experiences and outcomes of both students and teachers.

Learning Communities: Learning communities bring together groups of people for shared learning, discovery, and generation of knowledge. To achieve common learning goals, a learning community nurtures functional relationships among its members.

CIRTL Benefits for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars

• Enhance academic, communication, and research skills
• Engage in training and mentoring to become effective educators
• Leverage the literature associated with teaching and learning by participating and contributing to on-campus and online learning communities of diverse graduate students
• Gain competitive advantage in career searches
• Earn nationally recognized credentials
• Expand leadership skills and build relationships with peers and future colleagues
• Connect and find mentors among future and current faculty across the CIRTL network
• Digital badges issued through Credly