University of Virginia Teaching Resource Center

Faculty Programs

University Academy of Teaching: The Academy recognizes exemplary professors who have generously, collaboratively shared their know-how with faculty and graduate TA colleagues over time, throughout the University. Through the Academy, members innovatively share their expertise with even more colleagues in ways that will further raise the level of pedagogy at U.Va. Funded with support from The Jefferson Trust, an Initiative of the U.Va. Alumni Association, the Provost's Office, and the TRC. Detailed website coming soon.

Excellence in Diversity Fellowship Program: This Program offers incoming junior faculty one-year Fellowships to help them develop productive long-term careers at the University of Virginia. Originally funded by the Provost and by the Deans of Arts & Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Program now receives permanent support from the University of Virginia.

Learning Assessment Grants: A collaboration between the Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies (IAS) and the Teaching Resource Center (TRC), this small grants program provides “seed money” to encourage student learning assessment at UVa.

Professors As Writers: Funded by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, the Professors As Writers program supports UVa faculty in their academic and professional writing.

Graduate Student Programs

Tomorrow's Professor Today: A professional development program designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Teaching+Technology Support Partners: The TTSP program, funded by the Provost and ITC, provides training for a graduate student to give faculty within a department or school support in using new technologies for teaching innovation. Schools and departments with a substantial undergraduate population are eligible.

International Teaching Assistants Program: A program, co-sponsored with the Center for American English Language and Culture (CAELC), designed to assist International Graduate Students who speak a language other than English as their first language, and who are prospective Teaching Assistants for their departments.

Former Programs

University Teaching Fellowship Program: With summer grants and ongoing, interdisciplinary discussions, the University Teaching Fellows Program (1992-2011) has helped many of our most intellectually sound and successful junior faculty members develop into exceptionally fine teachers.

Teaching+Technology Initiative: This program (1995-2009), originally funded by the Provost and ITC, sponsored faculty fellows with projects integrating teaching and technology.

University Teaching Initiative: An initiative of the Faculty Senate funded by the Provost from 1998-2001, this program grew from the University-wide Self Study process (1994-95). The Teaching Resource Center collaborated with the Faculty Senate to strengthen the incentives for superior teaching by funding individual faculty teaching projects and to develop school and university-wide programs for enhancing apprenticeship teaching and the effectiveness of the learning experience for both undergraduate and graduate students.

TA Development Grants: These grants (1991-2003) helped departments improve their professional development programs for for graduate student TAs and encouraged faculty mentoring of graduate students as teachers. Unfortunately, state budget reductions have eliminated funding for TA Development Grants.

Undergraduate Student Focus Groups: This program attempted to foster an ongoing dialogue about teaching and learning between undergraduate students and faculty members and TAs.