The Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, formerly the University Teaching Center, was established in 1982 to organize and conduct programs to improve the quality of instruction at Carnegie Mellon. In recognition of The Eberly Family Charitable Trust support, the Center was renamed in 1996. The Center helps both faculty members and graduate students to improve teaching practices through introduction to theories of teaching and learning, reflection, practice and feedback. The Center for Teaching offers both public forums to discuss and explore issues related to teaching and learning and private consultations on course design or redesign, implementation, and formative evaluation.
Individual consultations are strictly confidential.
Whenever possible, the Center facilitates discussions of teaching and learning across departments and colleges both to address common concerns and to help transfer and adapt promising strategies to a variety of contexts. The Center aims to respond to the continually changing educational needs of the campus community. The Center for Teaching has several publications which can assist faculty in course development and implementation.