{"357671":{"#nid":"357671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Provost Approves Organizational Realignment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProvost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Rafael L. Bras has approved an organizational change that will modify the reporting structures within the offices of Learning Excellence and Libraries and Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs (GEFA).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe update is the result of a functional review of Learning Excellence, which was created in 2011 and grouped the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), the Office of Assessment, and Office of Educational Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoing forward, Learning Excellence will be focused on accreditation, assessment, program review and similar areas. The office and function will be renamed as \u201cAcademic Effectiveness\u201d and will continue to report to Catherine Murray-Rust, with a slightly modified title of Dean of Libraries and Vice Provost for Academic Effectiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECETL will be moved under guidance of the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs. The center\u2019s focus will continue to be on strengthening teaching professional development skills among the faculty, instructors and teaching assistants; instruction on learning\/classroom technologies; assisting faculty with integrating innovative teaching methodologies and techniques into the curriculum; and the scholarship of teaching and learning.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProvost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Rafael L. Bras has approved an organizational change that will modify the reporting structures within the offices of Learning Excellence and Libraries and Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs (GEFA).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0027Learning Excellence\u0027 function split; refocused as \u0027Academic Effectiveness\u0027"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2014-12-17 10:08:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:41","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cetl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/reporting-units\/vice-provost-graduate-education-faculty-affairs","title":"Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/reporting-units\/vice-provost-learning-excellence-and-dean-libraries","title":"Vice Provost for Learning Excellence and Dean of Libraries"}],"groups":[{"id":"131901","name":"Provost"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}