We Empower Teaching

The Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) develops a culture of teaching excellence across the USU Statewide system. ETE facilitates collaboration and scholarship between instructors from all disciplines, role statements, and campuses. ETE constructs an architecture of engagement to offer needed teaching-related supports to USU instructors.

Upcoming ETE Events

Empower Your Teaching

ETE offers numerous ways for faculty, instructors, and graduate students to enhance their teaching:

Professional Development Pathways

Join ETE’s free signature program to earn teaching certificates and micro-credentials.

Workshops

Attend workshops led by experts on pressing pedagogical issues.

Learning Circles

Read, talk about, and learn from a book of common interest with other members of the USU community.

Peer Evaluations

Receive feedback on your current teaching practices from a colleague.

Student Collaborators on Teaching

Receive student-centered feedback on your instruction from an undergraduate teaching fellow (UTF).

Teaching Statements

Craft a teaching statement that highlights your strengths as an educator.

ETE Annual Conference

Present, learn, and connect with faculty and instructors at the ETE Annual Conference, held every August in Logan.

Teach.USU

Find USU's asynchronous learning materials, located all in one spot.

Empower Teaching Book Series

Read about how USU faculty and instructors teach.

Empower Your Research

ETE has several opportunities for faculty and instructors to develop and publish their research.

Journal of Empowering Teaching Excellence

Contribute to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in ETE's collaborative peer-reviewed journal.

Publish and Prosper

Work with an expert to craft and submit original research to a peer-reviewed journal.

Teaching Excellence Scholar Awards

Develop conference papers and peer-reviewed publications on your teaching on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

Empower Your Leadership Skills

ETE has a professional development program focused on improving the knowledge of current and future USU administrators.

President’s Leadership Academy

Meet monthly with a cohort of USU leaders interested in learning more about higher education administration.