The central mission of the Christian A. Johnson Institute for Effective Teaching is to help faculty improve their understanding of how students learn, and to help them develop new strategies for teaching that better facilitate learning. The Institute is a home for faculty programs, projects, and initiatives that focus on deliberate, reflective, and ongoing studies and practice of effective teaching. This office ... provides direction in the area of institutional effectiveness. Specifically, this includes developing and implementing procedures for setting learning goals, planning educational activities, and establishing evaluation procedures for classes, general education categories, and academic majors in order to enhance student learning.