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Center for Educational Innovation

Following the recommendations of the “Working Group to Establish a Center for Teaching and Learning,” Fordham will create the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) to support effective pedagogical approaches to multi-modal teaching, learning, and educational innovation.

The Office of the Provost has launched a national search with the goal of appointing the Center’s inaugural Senior Director in Spring 2025. The members of the search committee are:

  • Elisabeth H. Buck, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center
  • Hooman Estelami, Professor, Gabelli School of Business
  • Lauri Goldkind, Professor, Graduate School of Social Service
  • Bob Hume, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences  (Committee Chair)
  • Judith (Jude) Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
  • Sara Lehman, Professor of Spanish, Department of Languages and Cultures
  • Anand Padmanabhan, Vice President and Chief Information Officer
  • Joshua Schrier, Kim B. and Stephen E. Bepler Chair and Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Akane Zusho, Professor of School Psychology, Graduate School of Education

Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE)

Fordham has joined the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), a research-practice partnership led by Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. COACHE provides Fordham with another means to inform strategies aimed at improving faculty recruitment, satisfaction, success, and retention. In spring 2024, Fordham faculty responded to a comprehensive COACHE survey on the academic workplace. Read a high-level summary of Fordham’s survey results. 

The Office of the Provost has appointed a steering committee to review the survey data, suggest ways to share the results, and propose short- and long-term priorities through which the administration can address faculty concerns expressed in the survey. Jeannine Pinto, Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, will provide analytical support to the committee, and Bill Colona, Special Assistant to the Provost, will provide resources to, and staff this committee. Steering Committee members include:

  • Amy Aronson, Professor of Communications and Media Studies, Arts & Sciences 
  • Daniel Contreras, Associate Professor of English
  • Jennifer Cooper, Assistant Professor of School Psychology, Graduate School of Education
  • Hooman Estelami, Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business
  • Ji Seon Lee, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Acting Dean, Graduate School of Education (Committee Chair)
  • Lauri Goldkind, Professor of Social Work, Graduate School of Social Science
  • Laura Specker Sullivan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arts & Sciences (Faculty Life Committee)