Center for Innovation in Teaching and Research

About CITR

Our Mission

The mission of the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Research at WIU is to provide the university community with opportunities and resources for their professional and personal enrichment. This office will acknowledge, recognize, and champion faculty in all their roles.

Goals

Specifically this office will:

Facilitate the development of outstanding faculty, staff, and administrators who are enabled in their efforts/commitment to providing superior instruction, conduct research, and service.
Facilitate the development of faculty, staff and administrators who are proactive in managing/responding to changing external and internal circumstances, including university, state, national, and international priorities.
Provide programs for faculty, staff, and administrators that span their careers. These include opportunities that address early, middle, late, and post retirement career needs and interests.
Strengthen community at the University and encourage productive collaborative relationships among all participants.

Programming

To accomplish these goals, programming is offered in the following areas:

Enrichment of the teaching-learning process
Understanding and assessing student learning
Enhancing the effective use of technology in teaching
Promoting scholarly research and creative activities
Enhancing professional and service activities
Facilitating an ongoing dialogue/exchange/communication on issues of local/regional/national/global importance
Exposure to diverse view points