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Our Partners

The Searle Center engages with all 12 schools, leads advisory boards and councils, and partners with units and committees across Northwestern’s student learning ecosystem and beyond to drive innovative teaching that shapes the future of higher education.

Advisory Boards and Councils

Assessment and Accreditation Council 

Co-led by Jennifer Keys and Lina Eskew, the Assessment and Accreditation Council shapes the institutional strategy to develop systematized, authentic, and sustainable assessment cycles in programs/schools, upholding our institutional commitment to ongoing assessment, ensuring the fulfillment of authentic student learning outcomes and the reaffirmation of HLC accreditation.

Northwestern’s University Practicum Advisory Board

Come back to learn more about this advisory board.

STEM Education Advisory Board

The Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching collaborates with the new STEM Education Advisory Board to guide departmental-/program-based curricular change projects with a focus on gateway, large-enrollment, lab, and high attrition courses, empowering change agents to design for student success and transform STEM education at scale so all students can thrive.

The Searle Center also engages with the board to elevate our STEM Teaching Excellence Programs, which infuse learner-centered teaching practices­ that foster resilience, sense of belonging, and holistic student success for all students and catalyze pedagogical innovations through communities of practice, cohort-based intensive workshops, in partnership with colleges/schools, and multi-institutional STEM programming. 

The collaborative work of the Board will advance the University Priorities of building resilient students and a sense of belonging.

Units and Committees

 
We are also connected to the field of educational development through the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), and our involvement with directors at Centers for Learning and Teaching in the Chicago area, the Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network, and Big Ten Academic Alliance.