Creating the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence

This paper describes a multi-year project to inform academic development (AD) for instructors at a large university, as the result of a shift towards greater equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) efforts. A variety of data were collected, along with extant literature focused on teaching and learning, to identify campus needs and priorities for AD, resulting in a signature pedagogy: the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence. FITE enables a shared understanding of teaching and learning with an EDIA lens, which has been integrated across all aspects of AD programming and informs how teaching and learning are valued and assessed.