Advisory Committee Charge

1. The committee will meet one to two times each term to communicate departmental, division, or unit interests as well as to provide input on policy and feedback on programming proposals and efforts.
2. In the first year, committee members will be chosen to represent as wide andinclusive a spectrum of units, divisions, and interests as possible. (In subsequent years, the committee's size may be adjusted for practical purposes.)
3. Additionally, each academic department will have a liaison to the Center for Teaching and Learning. While these liaisons are invited to interact with the Center directly, it will be the charge of advisory committee members to keep lines of communication open with the liaisons from their divisions about interests and concerns related to teaching and learning.
4. Committee members will be invited to help identify strategically valuable initiatives for the Center's first year, to participate in selecting topics for programming, and to have a voice in choosing outside speaker(s) or presenter(s).
5. The relationship between the committee and the director will be collaborative.
   • The director will bring a range of ideas and possibilities for programming based on scholarship and best practices at other institutions.
   • The committee will provide the director with advice on policy, input from diverse parts of the campus community, and feedback on the success of programming efforts.
   • The director will not look to the committee merely to rubber stamp decisions that have already been made, nor will the committee dictate policy and practice. Rather the work will be driven by a search for consensus about what is best for the long-term success of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Otterbein.
   • The Advisory Committee along with the Vice President for Academic Affairs will assess the success of the Center and the director.