CU Boulder’s Goals for Participation in the CIRTL Network:

A. Institutional goals for participating in the CIRTL project, which at CU Boulder will be called TIGER: the Teaching Institute on Graduate Education Research.

1. To develop an institute that supports and develops research on graduate education on the CU-Boulder campus: TIGER—the Teaching Institute for Graduate Education Research.
2. To establish the TIGER Faculty Advisory Board made up of respected STEM research faculty, Presidential Teaching Scholars, and the directors of the Graduate Teacher Program and the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program.
3. To connect with other research institutions through the national CIRTL Network in the improvement of teaching and learning in the STEM fields.
4. To expand current graduate student professional development activities in CU-Boulder STEM disciplines using teaching as research, learning communities, and CIRTL’s diversity materials.
5. To identify and implement aspects of the national CIRTL Network that expand and improve current CU-Boulder PFF activities and fit with the CU-Boulder campus culture.
6. To encourage STEM faculty to develop their own courses through teaching as research, diversity, and learning communities while they mentor graduate students participating in the TIGER project.
7. To encourage graduate students in the STEM disciplines to develop projects on teaching, write up their results, and publish on their efforts.

B. The outcomes that the University of Colorado at Boulder would like to see from our participation in the national CIRTL Network:

1. The existence of an institute that supports and develops research on graduate education on the CU-Boulder campus: TIGER—the Teaching Institute for Graduate Education Research.
2. Continued guidance from the TIGER Advisory Board.
3. Useful intercampus exchanges of ideas on professional development, shared research on graduate education, shared syllabi across the national CIRTL Network, and the creation of expanded models for teaching and learning in the STEM fields.
4. Expanded and improved graduate student professional development activities for graduate students at CU-Boulder.
5. A selection and adaptation of the CIRTL model within the framework of existing graduate student professional development activities on the CU-Boulder campus.
6. The improvement of the national CIRTL Network through collaboration with and the integration of existing resources from graduate student professional development activities on the Boulder campus.