The Teaching and Learning Initiative

The goal of the Teaching and Learning Initiative (TLI) is community building through supporting faculty, staff, and student participation in multiple dialogues about teaching and learning.

Supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, the TLI is founded on the following core commitments and processes:

  • To create new campus spaces and structures within which all members --- faculty, staff, and students --- interact as teachers, learners and colleagues
  • To collaborate and create relationships that move beyond the limitations of traditional roles we play at Bryn Mawr
  • To link everyone within the college community to educational opportunity and the opportunity to foster it for others

Questions of any kind can be directed to the Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Initiative, Alison Cook-Sather (acooksat@brynmawr.edu).

"At the base of the TLI is a vision of everyone — no matter how positioned, degreed, or experienced — having something to teach and something to learn."

- Alison Cook-Sather

"The TLI helps to democratize the institution by promoting a different kind of access to the people who study and the people who work here."

— Elliott Shore, Chief Information Officer

"Participants feel good about what they are doing, and I think that kind of positive mindset allows them to learn more and learn better."

— Jerry Berenson, Chief Administrative Officer

"The TLI provides a remarkable opportunity for faculty, staff, and students. The positive impact of this work is clear both in the classrooms of the participants and in the community as a whole."

— Kim Cassidy, Provost

"The TLI deliberately challenges the traditionally rigid role structure in which expertise is understood in exclusively hierarchical terms and some people’s work solely supports others’ educational opportunity."

— Alice Lesnick