The Center for Educational Excellence strives to support the faculty in their activities to promote academic excellence through faculty training, curriculum development, and coordination of outcomes assessment. The Center is particularly responsible for cross-disciplinary curricular elements at the University including the first year program and the comprehensive education goals and objectives. In each of these areas, the approach to academic excellence will be one that fosters the growth of higher states of consciousness at the same time as it instills knowledge and academic skills in the students.

In pursuit of this mission, the Center has established several overlapping goals. We strive to:

• Provide opportunities for teaching faculty to discuss students’ learning and ways to enhance it in their classrooms
• Support faculty as they implement their ideas for improving students’ learning, including thorough use of Maharishi’s Principles of Ideal Teaching
• Bring research about teaching to the attention of the university community
• Encourage involvement in the scholarship of teaching and research on learning
• Offer course development assistance at any stage: planning, teaching, evaluating
• Foster instructional innovation
• Advocate and recognize teaching excellence