Good teaching is assumed, but not sufficiently rewarded. People would do more SoTL if it were adequately rewarded. Faculty at ISU care about teaching. Teaching performance at Illinois State needs to be evaluated in more varied and better ways. The University Research Grant program, perhaps with the exception of College of Education, does not value proposals related to pedagogy.
Time is a huge barrier.
We try to be like big research universities, but we aren t given reduced teaching loads and other help. The values of the academic community are on research. There needs to be a top down commitment, like there has been with diversity. Faculty must do SoTL because they want to do it. There are few rewards.