ABOUT THE CENTER FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE

OUR PURPOSE

The art of teaching is at the heart of the University's life. The Center for Teaching Excellence seeks to develop and enrich the teaching of our faculty, Fordham's greatest asset. To this end, the Center provides the guidance, an environment, and the resources needed to further the art of teaching throughout the university.

THE CENTER'S MISSION

• To offer a range of resources for teaching, both inside and outside the classroom.

• To support the upcoming revision of the Core Curriculum.

• To support the expansion of Service Learning.

• To reflect Fordham's position at the crossroads of globalization.

• To support the integration of Fordham's various constituencies, such as our liberal arts and professional faculties, the Lincoln Center and Rose Hill campuses,and regular and adult students.

• To support the University's mission to infuse our teaching with Ignatian Pedagogy.

THE CENTER'S STAFF

Dr. Anne Mannion
Director

In over 40 years of teaching Anne Mannion, Associate Professor of History, has taught numerous undergraduates in both core courses, as well as a broad range of electives in the area of medieval history. Her entire career at Fordham has been spent at Fordham's city campus interacting with both traditional as well as non-traditional students. She has participated in a curricular design project sponsered by grants from the Mellon Foundation and currently is Director of the Honors Program at FCLC where she helped with the recent student project on South Street Seaport. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Manion has served as the Chair of the Division of Social Sciences and is currently a member of the University Faculty Senate. Her broad range of experience within the university has positioned her to serve as the inaugural director of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

Dr. Chris Toulouse
Program Coordinator

Chris has been teaching Political Science and Sociology at Lincoln Center since 1989. His Ph.D is in Urban & Political Sociology from Columbia (1994). Over the years he has taught a wide variety of regular and adult students in the New York region, and has worked at Hofstra University, Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan College, and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He is an enthusiastic proponent of using course web sites to enhance classroom-based coursework, and has worked with programmer Bill Restemeyer on a suite of experimental teaching applications (quizzes, forums, polls, essay submission forms) called Teachtools. You can find his current course sites and get an idea of his teaching philosophy at webteaching.org. He has published a book of readings about the Internet, 'The Politics of Cyberspace' (Routledge, 1998).