Summary

Involvement by participants in the UBC Faculty Certificate Program on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education provides many benefits for student, faculty, academic units and ultimately the university. On-going formative and summative program evaluation data will be used to further refine and develop the Certificate program. Faculty participants consist of all academic ranks including: full professors, curriculum Chairpersons, tenured and tenure-track faculty, senior instructors and sessional lecturers representing multidisciplinary settings. Essentially, the UBC Faculty Certificate Program on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education responds to a university commitment toward excellence in teaching and learning. It addresses the goals outlined in Place and Promise and the university’s Academic Plan by making a strong commitment to the scholarship of university teaching, as well as providing a responsive state-of-the-art faculty certificate program consistent with leading countries and higher education institutions from around the world (See Research Activity).