CASTL Program

The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) represents a major initiative of The Carnegie Foundation. Launched in 1998, the program builds on a conception of teaching as scholarly work proposed in the 1990 report, Scholarship Reconsidered, by former Carnegie Foundation President Ernest Boyer, and on the 1997 follow-up publication, Scholarship Assessed, by Charles Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, and Gene Maeroff.

The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program builds on the influential work undertaken by colleges and universities, campus centers and educational organizations, scholarly and professional societies, and CASTL Campus Program Leadership Clusters, to facilitate collaboration among institutions with demonstrated commitment to and capacity for action, inquiry and innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Participating institutions are organized to address specific themes important to the improvement of student learning, as well as the development and sustainability of a scholarship of teaching and learning.

To learn more about the CASTL Institutional Leadership Program, or about the Themes and Participants, please visit the Carnegie Foundation's CASTL website.

THEME

System-Wide Collaboration Supporting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

MISSION

The mission of the System-Wide Collaboration team, coordinated by the UW System, is to foster the scholarship of teaching and learning by understanding how SoTL inquiry into student learning can be accomplished through collaboration across and within multi-institutional systems of higher education.