The Center for Teaching and Curriculum (CTC) helps teachers of all ranks in Emory College with practical advice and supports teaching initiatives. Our services include confidential teaching assessments, grants, classroom videotaping, workshops and seminars to discuss teaching problems. All events are open equally to tenured, tenure-track and lecture-track faculty and to graduate student teaching assistants. The CTC also provides material support for the development of new courses, curricula, and methods of instruction.

The Center was founded in 1997 and since then has become a hospitable center for all college teachers. Each semester it holds a series of weekday lunchtime workshops to discuss issues of common concern. The themes of recent workshops have included: teachers' authority in the classroom, the limits of student conduct, how to deal with non-English-speaking students, classroom writing assignments, fair grading, student disabilities, and the role of teaching in the tenure process. An experienced teacher, or an administrator with relevant experience, generally begins the discussion but we emphasize participation. Faculty and TAs are encouraged to propose issues for these workshops, and everyone teaching in the college is invited to attend, usually with notification two weeks in advance.

The Center supervises the work of the Writing Center, and it holds an annual pedagogy seminar each May on issues of pedagogical theory, which in recent years has been led by Professor Marshall Gregory of Butler University.

In addition to these workshops, the CTC supervises various funds, and invites applications for them every semester. They include:

• teaching initiative grants;
• teaching-research grants;
• new course development grants (also available for teachers re-writing long-established courses, and teachers beginning a team-taught course);
• grants for teaching pairs, whose members watch and comment on each-other's classes; and
• funds for the enrichment of freshman seminars, enabling teachers to take the students to events off campus or to provide hospitality.

The Center offers a series of prizes each year, to outstanding faculty in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Honorees are introduced at graduation, and are the guests of honor at the CTC banquet early in the fall semester. They win a cash prize and a year of free parking with a guaranteed spot in the lot of their choice.