In 2006, CUNY was selected to take part in the Institutional Leadership Program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). This collaborative effort seeks to improve undergraduate education throughout CUNY, as an entire system, and the CUNY CASTL team will be working with other large university systems to study how we teach, and how our students learn.

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 Program seeks to support the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning that: fosters significant, long-lasting learning for all students; enhances the practice and profession of teaching; and brings to faculty members' work as teachers the recognition and reward afforded to other forms of scholarly work.

CUNY is working with the following institutions: Miami Dade College, University of Colorado, University of North Carolina, and the University of Wisconsin.

CUNY CASTL Leadership Team Members include:

Nancy Aries, Interim University Dean for Undergraduate Education (CUNY Central Office)

Peter Katopes, Vice President for Academic Affairs
(LaGuardia Community College)

Vita C. Rabinowitz, Acting Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs (Hunter College)

Robert Whittaker, Associate Provost of Undergraduate Studies and Online Education (Lehman College)

Cheryl Smith, Associate Professor of English (Baruch College)

Peter Gray, Associate Professor of English (Queensborough Community College)

Jason Tougaw, Assistant Professor of English (Queens College)

Carnegie, CASTL, and CUNY:
Advancing the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning

New Publication on General Education at CUNY
Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on General & Liberal Education, Judith Summerfield and Crystal Benedicks, eds. For more information, click here. Related Links
* CUNY Centers for Teaching & Learning
* Carnegie at CUNY
* Carnegie Foundation
* CUNY General Education Project
* Building Bridges for General Education Across the Curriculum

The scholarship of teaching and learning is characterized by “being public, open to critique and evaluation, and in a form that others can build on . . . It requires a kind of ‘going meta,’ in which faculty frame and systematically investigate questions related to student learning – the conditions under which it occurs, what it looks like, how to deepen it, and so forth – and do so with an eye not only to improving their own classroom but to advancing practice beyond it.”

— Pat Hutchings and Lee Shulman, “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Change 1999.

CUNY CASTL Leadership Team Members include:

Carnegie, CASTL, and CUNY: Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Carnegie, CASTL, and CUNY:
Advancing the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning