INSTITUTIONAL PORTFOLIO.

• While extraordinary student success starts with the student, skilled instructors play an indispensable role. Ongoing professional development, access to research findings about effective teaching and learning, and understanding of new technologies are of key importance to effective university teaching. Providing these services to advance teaching excellence across the institution is the mission of IUPUI's Center for Teaching and Learning. The CTL offers programs, events, and services that foster innovation and translation of educational research into practice. Recognized nationally and internationally as a leading instructional development center, the CTL served close to 1,400 IUPUI faculty and staff members in 2011-2012.
• Innovative interdisciplinary 21^st century degree programs, often targeted to areas of economic growth and emerging local industries, help to fuel extraordinary student success. New undergraduate programs recently begun or approved include Energy Engineering in the School of Engineering and Technology, a degree unique to IUPUI; Medical Humanities and Health Studies in the School of Liberal Arts; Sustainable Management and Policy in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and Neuroscience in the School of Science.
• The new undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus responds to growing local demand; Columbus, Indiana has the highest population of engineers per capita in the country. Since the program's inception in 2010, the number of students reporting Mechanical Engineering as their major has leapt from 11 to 71.
• IUPUI's new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education Research Institute will develop, coordinate, and disseminate STEM education research programs across the IUPUI campus and in collaboration with external partners, with the goal of advancing STEM education in Indiana and across the nation. Under the Institute's auspices, researchers will investigate fundamental questions about how people master STEM learning and evaluate the effectiveness of existing and proposed STEM educational practices. Institute leaders combine knowledge of teaching and learning with expertise in discipline-specific STEM content and represent the Schools of Science, Engineering and Technology, and Education. The Institute is overseen by theOffice of the Vice Chancellor for Research in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Urban Center for the Advancement of STEM Education in the School of Education.

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