Morgan Teaching & Learning Center

Advancing Teaching and the Professional Growth of Faculty at WPI

About Us

Elevate your teaching with the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center at WPI. Enhance your skills, innovate your curriculum, and join a community dedicated to educational excellence.

What We Do

We help you level-up your teaching to facilitate learning and engagement in undergraduate and graduate courses. Some of our activities include:

Teaching and Learning

Faculty On-Ramp to Teaching (FORT)
Food for Thought Seminars
Teaching Consultations
Professional Learning Communities
Training for Student Educators
Morgan Pedagogy Champions

Faculty Mentoring and Development

New Faculty Orientation
New Faculty Mentoring Program
Student Consultants on Optimizing Pedagogical Excellence (SCOPE) Program

Grants and Awards

Teaching Innovation Grants
Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education
Class of '57 Teaching Development Travel Grants

And More!

Engage with us to learn about department assessment research, the scholarship of teaching and learning, student collaborators on teaching, and more! Throughout its work, the Center aims to advance WPI’s mission and live its values of community, inclusion, respect, innovation, and achievement.

Student Educators, see the Programming schedule

TA Training 

TA Orientation is held each August and January for graduate students receiving Teaching Assistantships

Training  for PLAs, GLAs, Graders, and other Course Assistants

This training program is for all undergraduate and graduate students hired by departments or programs to assist instructors on an hourly basis in roles like Peer Learning Assistant, Student Assistant, Graduate Learning Assistant, Course Grader, Senior Tutor, Graduate Assistant in the Business School, or other similar titles. These are held each term.

Training for Student Educators

Resources at a Glance

Teaching Innovation Grant Info

Professional Learning Community Grants: A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a group of WPI community members from multiple disciplines engaging in collegial inquiry, action, and collective learning around a central theme in pedagogical or educational development and innovation. Awarded by the EDC, ATC, and Morgan Center. EDC-formed: People apply as individuals for a particular PLC theme, and the review committee selects a diverse group from among the applicants.
Course and Program Projects: This grant is intended for applicants, either individuals or small groups, whose project is aimed at department or program-level impact rather than campus-wide impact. Awarded by the EDC, ATC, and Morgan Center.
Summer Sandbox Grants: Awarded by Undergraduate Studies supporting individual faculty or groups of faculty who design and test new approaches to teaching and advising in an undergraduate summer course or project, using summer as a learning laboratory for the academic year.

This program does not fund routine updating or renewal of courses, curricula, or teaching methods.

Academic Year 2023 - 2024

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Academic Years 2018 - 2022

Read Our Impact Report

The Morgan Teaching and Learning Center is named in honor of the Morgan family’s generous philanthropy. Descendants of Charles Hill Morgan, who supervised the construction of WPI’s Washburn Shops building and also served as a WPI trustee from the university’s founding in 1865 until his death in 1911, made a gift to endow the center. Five generations of Morgans have served on the WPI Board of Trustees, and Paul S. Morgan was appointed to chair the board. The Morgan family has also been one of WPI’s most generous benefactors, establishing the Morgan-Worcester Distinguished Instructorship (for mechanical engineering faculty) and scholarships, and supporting major capital projects, including Morgan Hall residence and the renovation of the Washburn Shops.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MORGAN FAMILY AND THEIR SUPPORT