{"id":13329,"date":"2026-01-06T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/?p=13329"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:57:55","slug":"academic-innovation-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/2026\/01\/06\/academic-innovation-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Innovation Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> article, Vice President and Associate Provost of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching &amp; Learning and BU Virtual Wendy Colby discusses the role of academic innovation centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) within the university ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>In the evolving landscape of higher education, centers and institutes dedicated to teaching and learning can no longer be viewed as optional support units; they have become critical engines driving academic innovation at scale. Success in this mission depends on rethinking legacy structures, fostering a culture of collaboration across schools and colleges, identifying opportunities that deliver broad impact, and remaining grounded in the core principles that make teaching truly effective: clarity, engagement, reflection, inclusivity, adaptability, support and rigor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/columns\/learning-innovation\/2026\/01\/27\/3-questions-academic-innovation-and-centers-teaching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story in <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Inside Higher Ed article, Vice President and Associate Provost of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching &#038; Learning and BU Virtual Wendy Colby discusses the role of academic innovation centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) within the university ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20989,"featured_media":13358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13329"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14099,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions\/14099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}