ABSTRACT
University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) was founded in 1890 as a normal school for teacher education, one of three such institutions created at the same time for the Oklahoma Territory. Influenced by the emerging goal of Transformative Learning (TL), the vice presidents began formulating a set of overarching educational goals (tenets) that could contribute to students’ development and transformation. UCO made a lasting and public commitment to TL in the form of the new Center for Transformative Learning building, opened in 2010. The facility housed a number of flexible active learning spaces, equipped with technology. Creating a Student Transformative Learning Record assignment in a course encouraged faculty to consider how their course might contribute to TL by their students. One institutional attribute that was instrumental in the wider use of STLR was UCO’s promotion and tenure (P&T) policy. That policy was weighted toward quality of teaching as evidence of success supporting promotion to tenure and for posttenure review.
