University of Virginia Teaching Resource Center

TRC's 20 Year Anniversary

This year, the Teaching Resource Center is celebrating its 20-year commitment to promoting professional excellence at the University of Virginia. Throughout the year, we will recognize and celebrate the generous members of the University community who have worked with us for two decades; appreciate the connections and collaborations we have fostered throughout and beyond UVa; highlight accomplishments since the TRC’s founding in 1990; and look to the future.

20th Anniversary Events

Kick-off Celebration
The opening reception on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 honored the faculty, graduate students, and other members of the UVa community who have helped us cultivate conversations, connections, and scholarly exchange. Through TRC workshops, these individuals have freely shared their time, energy, and expertise to elevate the discourse about teaching and learning. This kick-off event, held at the President's Carr's Hill home, featured "Five-Minute Workshops" from these award-winning faculty:

Milton Adams, Biomedical Engineering; Vice Provost for Academic Programs
Sarah Farrell, Nursing
Sherwood Frey, Darden
Judith Reagan, TRC, Drama

Funded by anonymous donors, friends of the TRC.

January Teaching Workshop
As you prepare for the Spring semester, make plans to attend the January Teaching Workshop. This half-day workshop is a great forum to discuss innovative ways to approach common teaching concerns and to connect with colleagues throughout the University.

The TRC celebrates its long tradition of rich collaborations with other offices around Grounds at this year’s JTW. Several sessions showcase a few of the TRC’s more recent collaborations: Panelists include recent winners of Learning Assessment Grants (co-sponsored by the Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies) and Academic Community Engagement Faculty Fellows Grants (the Office for Community Partnerships). Featured this year is a new collaboration with the International Studies Office, which provides support for two sessions as well as boxed lunches for pre-registrants.

Teaching Concerns 20th Anniverary Edition
Since the Spring of 1991, the Teaching Resource Center has published Teaching Concerns, a biannual newsletter for faculty and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Virginia. It serves as a medium for dissemination of teaching tips, essays, book reviews, announcements and deadlines, as well as other teaching related information. In celebration of the Center's 20-year anniversary, the Fall 2009 edition featured a timeline of the Center's first two decades; a historical look at our flagship program, the University Teaching Fellows Program; and a look "by the numbers."

With the generous support of the Student Book Store, the newsletter was printed for the first time ever in full color.