Ken Bain and the Role of a Teaching Center

At long last, here is part 2 of my interview with Dr. Bain. Knowing that he has started 4 different Teaching Excellence centers, I wanted to know what he felt was the main job of such a center. He told me about the four crucial ways that the center can serve the university. You can listen to “the Four Ways” here.

But one simple and valuabe thing that he told me off-handedly, while we walked across campus, has stuck with me the most. When I asked him how to get faculty to come to Center events about teaching, he said: they’ll come when the events aren’t about teaching, but instead they are about LEARNING. Ah HA!