What SoTL Can Do for You and Your Department, School, or College

SoTL can help you and your department/school/college in the following ways:

• Help with program assessment
• Be used in program review and accreditation
• Revitalize some senior faculty members
• Create new networks and partnerships among faculty, staff, and students
• Provide research opportunities for students
• Bring in outside funding
• Help meet University mission, values, and goals
• Add scholarly achievements to faculty accomplishments
• Provide opportunities to be involved in a national/international higher education initiative
• Be used to strengthen budge requests for additional operational or personnel funds
• Be added to graduate student training and preparing future faculty
• Encourage life-long learning by instructors
• Increase faculty and department/school visibility in the discipline more broadly
• Increase faculty credentials for major internal and external teaching awards
• Demonstrate to job candidates that you value teaching
• Improve teaching and student learning in your department, school, and college