CTL director to lead UNC system consortium

J. Garvey Pyke, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, was elected chair of the UNC Faculty and Academic Developers Consortium.

Collaborating with faculty development leaders across all 17 UNC campuses and supported by UNC General Administration, the UNC Faculty and Academic Development Consortium serves as a conduit for collaboration, common resources and shared advocacy with the goal of enhancing faculty and academic development in higher education for the UNC system.

“This consortium works on projects and initiatives that have both local and statewide impact,” said Pyke, who will serve a two-year term as chair. “One major example is the system-wide collaborative we are developing for Quality Matters, a peer review process for ensuring high quality online courses. This will add value not only to UNC Charlotte’s courses but to all UNC schools’ online offerings.”

Laura Pipe, coordinator, Teaching Innovations Office, UNC Greensboro, is vice chair of the consortium, and Diana Ashe, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Leadership, UNC Wilmington, is the communications chair.

Pyke, who completed a Doctor of Education in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, has been the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning since 2013; he joined UNC Charlotte in 2003. CTL promotes teaching excellence, provides enterprise-level academic technologies and champions the advancement of scholarly teaching.

“It is very gratifying to see the impact we have on campus in supporting and promoting all the amazing work our faculty do every day,” Pyke said.