DCAL Mission

The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) advances undergraduate and graduate student learning by providing and coordinating services that promote and support effective teaching. DCAL pursues its mission by

• Building a community of informed conversation about learning and teaching practices.
  • DCAL collects, selects and distills published scholarship on teaching and learning and makes it available to the Dartmouth community.
  • DCAL promotes collaboration and discussion between faculty members, future faculty and support services for teaching at Dartmouth.
• Orienting new faculty members and postdoctoral fellows to teaching at Dartmouth.
• Promoting the purposeful use of new media and information technology for teaching and learning at Dartmouth.
• Helping faculty members and future faculty, individually and in peer groups, assess the effectiveness of their teaching in order to promote continuous improvement.
• Encouraging and supporting research about teaching and learning.
• Drawing special attention to matters of diversity, focusing on the benefits, challenges, opportunities, and obligations such matters present in a residential learning community.

DCAL was established with major gifts from Gordon Russell '55 and R. Stephen Cheheyl '67. DCAL is located in the east wing of Baker-Berry Library in Hanover, NH.