Welcome to The Alliance
The Alliance for Teaching Enrichment is an organization of faculty created to bring together those most interested in student success, quality instruction, and advancing the academic mission of the university.
Our Mission
The Alliance is a community of educators committed to the celebration, development, and elevation of a diverse culture of teaching at Purdue Fort Wayne and in our region. We seek to enrich teaching and learning by fostering a collaborative community to serve faculty, staff, and students dedicated to the pursuit of authentic learning. The Alliance promotes creativity, boldness, enjoyment, and growth as pathways to excellence in teaching and learning.
The values of our alliance are the following:
- Collaboration
- Boldness
- Diversity and inclusion
- Enjoyment
- Meaningful work
- Mutual service and support
- Creativity
- Organizational Structure
Board of the Alliance for Teaching Enrichment (BOATE)
Our charge is to plan, continuously improve, budget, maintain liaison with faculty and administration, and manage the calendar.
We are composed of captains of other teams, appropriate assistant/associate vice chancellor from academic affairs, and two at-large members elected from the membership. The admiral of this committee must be a member of the Alliance and is elected by the board.
Celebration Team
The Celebration Team celebrates bold and creative teaching and enacts values of inclusion, diversity, and enjoyment. This team has at least three major campus units represented by their members.
Outreach Team
The Outreach Team serves as a hub for sharing ideas. They collaborate with other campus bodies such as CELT, FACET, IRSC, DCS, OACS. They also facilitate interest groups from the campus and community for specific teaching related topics and facilitate departments in their mentoring of teaching.
The Outreach Team generally has five to seven members that represent FACET, CELT, and can have three additional faculty or staff members, as well as two students.
Membership Team
The Membership Team has the following responsibilities:
- Select members
- Develop, incorporate, and revise criteria for membership
- Foster continuing commitment
- Guide membership through roles of inclusion
Programming Team
The Programming Team coordinates programming among the boards and provides programming not offered by other boards.
Assessment Team
The Assessment Team evaluates alliance efforts, goals, and progress toward its mission.
Scholarly Teaching Team
The Scholarly Teaching Team disseminates and helps with the personalization and assessment of teaching innovations and classroom creativity. This team is composed of five people from multiple different colleges.
Student Team
The Student Team identifies meaningful resources about who Purdue Fort Wayne students are and makes them accessible to faculty, staff, and students. They also promote active student leadership and participation to include the student perspective in our collaborative community.
This team is composed of five faculty and three students who coordinate with advisors and Purdue's Institutional Review Board.
Events
February 22, 4:30–9 p.m.: Spring Learning Party
Classic Ballroom (FWTC in here until 6:30 p.m. but will be done by 3 p.m.)
March 25, noon–1:15 p.m.: Student-driven event (student team), Walb Union, Room 222–226
April 26 and 27: Alliance retreat at Potawatomi Inn