The Alliance for Better College Teaching: Improving Public Trust by Elevating Evidence-Based Teaching

The Alliance for Better College Teaching (ABCT) is preparing to launch a comprehensive strategy that will elevate and improve teaching for student success at scale in higher education. Our vision is an academy where every faculty member learns about teaching and learning in graduate school and then is hired, socialized, rewarded, and supported for using evidence-based teaching practices. In this vision, campuses incentivize and support faculty with an infrastructure for teaching equivalent to what exists for research, and the larger higher education ecosystem provides additional incentives and support for teaching through accreditation, national associations, and disciplinary societies. The early strategy, launching in 2026, involves the ABCT coalition of leading organizations and a pilot network of institutions, the Better College Teaching Network. In this session, participants will learn about the ABCT and strategy, provide perspectives on key opportunities and challenges, and identify ways to become involved.