Thursday, October 2, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Teaching support centers are learning to work together
ASTUTE and CTE planning to merge offices next year
Jennifer A. Yeoman
jyeoman@Kansan.com
Kansan staff report
Despite what some people believe, the Center for Teaching Excellence and ASTUTE are not the same thing. But they will be.
The Academic Systems for Teaching and Understanding Technology in Education, or ASTUTE, works with faculty to help them use and incorporate technology in teaching. CTE, on the other hand, provides strategies, programs and services to enhance and reinforce the
teaching mission at the University of Kansas.
ASTUTE and CTE will merge next year when their new department office is completed in Budig Hall. The new office will be called solely the Center for Teaching Excellence.
"It's almost like we're engaged to be married," said Sue Nishikawa, ASTUTE coordinator. "But nothing for the wedding has been set in stone."
Decisions for the combined center have not been made yet by the University. It is unclear who will direct the center and if there will be any budget or duty changes.
"The longer we are here, the more work we're going to get," said CTE director Fred Rodriguez, who has only had one or two walk-in visitors. "Once we're established and get
"People don't necessarily know what roles each of us fulfills. We're determined not to overlap"
Fred Rodriguez
Director of the Center for Teaching
Excellence
The centers currently are coordinating activities in preparation for the merger.
"People don't necessarily know what roles each of us fulfills," Rodriguez said. "We're determined not to overlap."
In order not to step on each
others'toes or the toes of other faculty support programs, the various groups meet to discuss what they are working on. Those that meet are the Academic Computing Services, the Writing Center, CTE, ASTUTE, the library system and media services.
Rodriguez hopes that when ASTUTE and CTE merge they will be able to help coordinate their activities and their budgets.
"The merger will help us to organize our activities by combining our efforts." Nishikawa said. "We'll be in in closer communication and the flow will be a lot better."
The merger also will help the centers to budget better because they will be pooling their resources.
"We're just learning what it
ASTUTE events
Upcoming events for ASTUTE and the Center for Teaching Excellence.
Info '97 - commercial vendors will show the latest instructional hardware and -rftware - 10-4 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Kemper Symposium - Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
7-9 p.m. on Oct. 7 at 110 Budig Hall. All students are welcome.
takes to run a center like this," Rodriguez said. "But we will have a real nice piece of real estate in Budig. I think it's a good statement that the University has made about the importance of teaching."
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