Teaching and Learning Hubs
In an effort to further our shared mission of fostering student success across the state, the Belk Center, Achieving the Dream (ATD) and the NC Student Success Center have established four North Carolina Teaching & Learning Hubs dedicated to helping faculty and staff leverage actionable insights in the classroom.
The hubs – East, West, Central and Piedmont – engage all 58 of the state’s community colleges by complementing individual colleges’ teaching and learning efforts to support scalable, sustainable professional learning activities for full- and part-time faculty. Since the program launched in 2021, the Hubs have worked with local campus networks to offer virtual and face-to-face workshops and seminars – helping educators learn about, adopt, test and scale evidence-based strategies that have increased student success outcomes across the nation. And to ensure that local area needs are met, Hub programming is designed in close collaboration with local educators and campus leaders.
For more information about the NC Teaching & Learning Hubs, please contact us at teachingandlearningbelkcenter@ncsu.edu.
“The Teaching & Learning Hubs have provided a collaborative space for our affiliate college faculty and professional learning leaders to come together to analyze, discuss, review and improve student learning in the classroom. There are key takeaways and direct applications that faculty can incorporate into their teaching and learning immediately after each professional learning experience. There is tremendous value in the relationships and networking that is taking place across our Hubs – it has been exciting to see these collaborative efforts in the works.”
– Natasha Harris, director of faculty and staff development at Wilkes Community College and co-director of the West Hub
T&L Hubs in the News
Check out the T&L Professional Development Archive
NC Teaching & Learning Hub Publications
At the Belk Center, we believe that teaching and learning for community college students is a commitment to student success – with faculty professional learning at the core. In recent years, our team of dedicated researchers and educators have created reports specific to the development of the faculty professional learning model for full- and part-time faculty across North Carolina.
2024
- Statewide Professional Learning for Faculty and Student Success, August 2024
- Building Capacity & Supporting Educators at North Carolina Community Colleges, June 2024
- Evidence of Scale for a Statewide Teaching and Learning Model, January 2024
2023
- Promising Evidence on Professional Learning in North Carolina: Early Findings From Teaching & Learning Hubs, October 2023
- Teaching & Learning Webinar Series One Pager, April 2023
- The Reach of the North Carolina Teaching & Learning Hubs: An Inaugural Year Report, February 2023
2021
- Faculty Experiences with Professional Development: Data to Inform Community College Teaching and Learning Hubs in North Carolina, June 2021
- Survey of Faculty Professional Development Interests and Experiences, April 2021
2020
- Teaching & Learning Executive Summary, August 2020
- Teaching and Learning Brief, January 2020
