ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the basic elements of teaching center direction: the role of the director, finding and nurturing staff, a budgetary model, and operational principles. Teaching center directors can always attend multiple conferences, and senior people have opportunities to consult on other campuses and serve as speakers. Staff at Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) have worked (or interned) at other teaching centers as faculty developers, been faculty members themselves, or served as departmental mentors for their graduate student colleagues before they received their degrees. CRLT professional staff work is organized as a matrix, with some staff serving specific disciplinary areas and others serving topic areas. A teaching center director must be clear about the strategic goals he or she wants to achieve and advocate persistently for the goals of greatest strategic importance.
