Impact

Our goal is to use a data-driven approach to inform the work that we do as a teaching and learning center. Check out the key take-aways taken from CATE’s impact report, where we share with you the work we have done in the past three fiscal years (2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023) since our inception to engage with and support the UIC teaching community.

The report highlights the history of the center, our reach and engagement across campus through our services and programming directed at faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, resources we have developed in response to instructor needs, as well as the incredible work our graduate student workers have accomplished.

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence — CATE — areas of focus. 1: Instructor teaching development & professional learning. 2: Graduate student & postdoc professional development.

CATE’s First Three Years

2020-2021
  • CATE’s inception and hiring CATE staff
  • UIC joins the CIRTL network
  • COVID-19 pandemic and supporting instructors’ transition to online teaching
2021-2022
  • Integrating graduate student engagement into the center
  • Supporting instructors’ efforts teaching back on campus and teaching across different course modalities
  • Needs assessment of instructors across campus
  • Building out core programming and learning communities
  • Departmental outreach and engagement through consultations and workshops
2022-2023
  • Moving into the Teaching Excellence Building
  • Restructuring of teaching support on campus with CATE, Instructional Design and Media Production Studio, and Learning Technology Solutions
  • Launch of Inclusive Education Scholars Certificate Program and Action Research Scholars Program
  • Sustained core programming and services

READ THE FULL CATE IMPACT REPORT

CATE AT A GLANCE: 2020-2023 IN REVIEW Heading link

FROM FISCAL YEARS 2020-2021, 2021-2022, AND 2022-2023

CATE has engaged with all of UIC’s 16 colleges and schools and with 42 individual departments across campus.

TOP 6 COLLEGES THAT HAVE ENGAGED WITH CATE
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Applied Health Sciences
  • Business Administration
  • College of Medicine
  • School of Public Health

681 faculty members have engaged with CATE: 23% of all faculty on campus.

872 workshops, consultations, and events offered to 4,811 total participants.

583 one-on-one and departmental consultations on pedagogy, instructional design, and multimedia.

258 unique individuals have engaged with CATE across at least 2 different types of programming or services.

275 WORKSHOPS OFFERED TO 3,657 PARTICIPANTS. OF THESE:
  • 81 department-requested workshops provided for 1,427 participants.
  • 67 workshops with 608 total participants focused on online teaching and educational technology.
  • 42 Teaching Tidbits Workshops offered to 615 total participants.
  • 99% of participants are somewhat or very likely to apply the teaching practices from the workshop to their future teaching.
ARE CATE WORKSHOPS GOOD VALUE

97% of participants would recommend a CATE workshop to a colleague.

93% strongly agreed or agreed that they learned useful information that would improve their teaching and interactions with students.

 

SPECIAL ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

38 instructors completed the first cohort of Inclusive Education Scholars Certificate Program.

8 inaugural Action Research Scholars with 9,450 students impacted by the scholars’ teaching innovations and projects.

 

GRADUATE AND POST DOC STUDENTS

34 workshops geared towards graduate students or postdoctoral scholars with 504 total participants.

356 attendees at the 2022 New TA Orientation that offered 26 interactive workshops with 94% of participants who reported feeling more prepared for their TA role.

83 graduate students have taken Foundations of College Instruction Courses, representing 29 different departments.

199 total participants in CIRTL Network programming.

 

COMMUNICATION

108,320 website users

51 newsletters

21 Teaching Guides with over 90K page views.