The Sheridan Center seeks to provide a place where all learners can grow, interdisciplinary collaborations can form, and educators can experiment with different modalities of teaching and learning. At the core of our work is a commitment to educational excellence, equity and access through evidence-based, reflective practices. Through educational partnerships at Brown and globally, we advance the university’s mission and create teaching and learning communities dedicated to improving learner success and supporting educators’ professional growth.

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Major initiatives of the Sheridan Center include:

• Partnerships with learning designers, technologists and media professionals to help instructors foster innovative teaching and design remote-accessible courses and programs as engaging learning experiences. 
• The Brown Learning Collaborative, which offers rigorous academic courses for undergraduate teaching fellows and evidence-based course design institutes for faculty and TAs; and enhances student learning in key liberal arts areas, such as writing, problem solving, and data science.
• Support for inclusive and anti-racist teaching, embedded in Sheridan programs and offered as focused initiatives for departmental change teams.
• Writing, STEM, academic tutoring, and English language learning expertise to offer direct support to students; develop peer fellows, mentors and tutors; and promote faculty and departmental practices to help all students succeed as learners and communicators.
• Interdisciplinary learning communities for instructors, such as certificates on reflective teaching and course design, a Junior Faculty Fellows program, dissertation writing groups, and course design institutes.
• Resources, programs, and consultations for instructors as they consider how to respond to the evolving influence of artificial intelligence on teaching and learning.
• Assessment and research support for program review, cross-institutional grants supporting educational innovation, and initiatives to enhance teaching and learning at Brown.

We also offer:

• Partnerships with learning designers, technologists and media professionals to help instructors foster innovative teaching and design remote-accessible courses and programs as engaging learning experiences. 
• The Brown Learning Collaborative, which offers rigorous academic courses for undergraduate teaching fellows and evidence-based course design institutes for faculty and TAs; and enhances student learning in key liberal arts areas, such as writing, problem solving, and data science.
• Support for inclusive and anti-racist teaching, embedded in Sheridan programs and offered as focused initiatives for departmental change teams.
• Writing, STEM, academic tutoring, and English language learning expertise to offer direct support to students; develop peer fellows, mentors and tutors; and promote faculty and departmental practices to help all students succeed as learners and communicators.
• Interdisciplinary learning communities for instructors, such as certificates on reflective teaching and course design, a Junior Faculty Fellows program, dissertation writing groups, and course design institutes.
• Resources, programs, and consultations for instructors as they consider how to respond to the evolving influence of artificial intelligence on teaching and learning.
• Assessment and research support for program review, cross-institutional grants supporting educational innovation, and initiatives to enhance teaching and learning at Brown.

Contact Information

Physical Address:  Sciences Library (201 Thayer Street, 3rd, 5th, 7th, & 10th floors)
Mailing Address:  Box 1912, Brown University, Providence, RI  02912
Phone:  401-863-1219
Fax:  401-863-9458
Email:  Sheridan_Center@Brown.edu
Website: https://sheridan.brown.edu