Our History
On May 6, 1983 teacher educators from 12 private liberal arts colleges and universities met at Princeton University to discuss concerns common to their programs and issues of pressing national interest.
The initial 12 colleges (alongside their respective representatives) part of the Consortium for Excellence in Teaching Education were
- Barnard College (Susan Sacks)
- Brandeis University (Peter Witt)
- Brown University (Reginald C. Archambault)
- Connecticut College (Beth Hanna)
- Dartmouth College (Faith Dunne)
- Princeton University (Henry N. Drewry, Jerri Morrison, Ruth Wilson)
- Smith College (Alan Marvelli)
- Swarthmore College (Robert Gross and Eva Travers)
- The University of Pennsylvania (James Larkin)
- Vassar College (Thomas McHugh and Robin Trainor)
- Wellesley College (Barbara Brenzel)
- Wesleyan University (Marjorie Rosenbaum)
Participants in the conference reaffirmed their belief in the need to encourage able students to enter the profession and to prepare them for teaching in a thorough scholarly and imaginative manner.
The interests of the colleges at the first conference could be characterized as improving and developing.
- Relationships with colleagues in the liberal arts colleges within which we exist and problems related to attracting academically strong students into teaching
- Relationship with state agencies and problems related to the wave of revisions in standards by which programs are approved
- Relationships with local school districts, schools, and teachers.
- Relationships with each other (possibilites for networking)