Indiana University

Mission/Vision/Goals

 
The FACET Mission Statement

FACET is a community of faculty dedicated to and recognized for excellence in teaching and learning. FACET advocates pedagogical innovation, inspires growth and reflection, cultivates the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and fosters personal renewal in the commitment to student learning.

FACET Vision and Goals

The Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching was founded as and continues to be both a teaching award and a teaching "academy." It is a dynamic and vital state-wide community of distinguished faculty at Indiana University.

FACET's goals of recognizing and promoting excellence in teaching across campuses, schools, and disciplines shape our objectives for program planning. They also provide the direction for a wide-ranging program of faculty development, pedagogical exploration, and university service.

The following text articulates the vision of the FACET Director, Robin K. Morgan, and was submitted to the FACET Directorship Search and Screen Committee as part of her application in 2010.

Directors' Vision for FACET

FACET fosters an environment of a community of learners devoted to teaching excellence, effective student learning, and the development of lifelong learners. Since my own induction into FACET, I have seen the strength of this 'community' in providing a supportive environment that encourages the continual growth of its members. FACET has become known as much more than simply a teaching recognition organization; we have been in the forefront of expanding the importance of the documentation of teaching excellence through student outcomes and in supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning. Over the past four years, FACET has broadened its visibility and impact beyond our own state through presentations and publications.

As FACET moves forward, my priorities will be to:

  1. Listen: FACET is fortunate enough to be composed of over 400 dedicated and talented members. It is through the hard work and creativity of these members that FACET has achieved its current success. My goal is to reach out to the FACET members in an effort to understand their concerns and recommendations for further strengthening and developing FACET.
  2. Strengthen: FACET is an organization that works. The campus and statewide selection process has identified and admitted hundreds of talented faculty, hundreds of workshops and programs have been sponsored at the campus and statewide level, and FACET has become a presence on an international level through the Quick Hits publications and its association with JoSoTL. My goal is to strengthen our current programs by:
    • Broadening disciplinary representation across campuses, especially in those fields which have been long underrepresented in FACET. Excellence in teaching is the hallmark of admission to FACET. However, we need to strengthen our ability to recognize excellence in teaching where the classroom model is not the "rule;" excellence in teaching may occur in online environments or in the one-on-one teaching more characteristic of our colleagues in medicine, law, nursing, or dentistry.
    • Strengthening our ties with the Mack Center to promote increased awareness of faculty scholarship in improving teaching and learning. Increased participation of FACET colleagues in the publication and presentation of their work in pedagogy can ensure that best practices can be recognized.
  3. Develop: Without moving forward, an organization runs the risk of stagnating. By encouraging the talents of our FACET members, such stagnation is highly unlikely. My goal is to develop mechanisms by which we encourage current FACET members and future FACET members to take a more active role in the organization by:
    • Working with campus FACET liaisons to identify and offer programming on individual campuses and across campuses that would draw in all FACET members,
    • Developing a program to incorporate new FACET members into FACET activities from the outset, and
    • Increasing the visibility of the FACET organization across the IU system as well as to a wider audience: nationally and internationally. Within the IU system, FACET has sometimes been perceived as secretive; becoming more visible through an increased presence may serve to eliminate this perception. National and international presentations will also be important for increasing visibility.

-Robin K. Morgan