The Teaching Academy Campus Program, which is coordinated for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching by The American Association for Higher Education, is designed for institutions of all types that are prepared to make a public commitment to foster and support the scholarship of teaching and learning. Through the Campus Program, campuses work together to cultivate the conditions needed for such work.

Participating campuses undertake this work in various ways, depending on institutional type, previous work, existing policies and practices and aspects of culture. Large research universities organize their work differently from small liberal arts colleges. Community colleges face different challenges and opportunities than are faced by comprehensive universities. Campuses that have done extensive work in areas such as the assessment of student learning and peer-review of teaching begin work in different places than institutions that are new to these matters. 

Recognizing these differences, the Campus Program invites any interested campus to organize its efforts and then to register its process and goals so that institutions can learn from one another. As of Fall 2000, 180 campuses have signaled that they are working actively to foster the scholarship of teaching and learning by registering on the AAHE Web site (at http://aahe.ital.utexas.edu).

A variety of opportunities for networking and information exchange are available for Campus Program participants.

The Teaching Academy Campus Program comprises three levels of activity that allow for a range of approaches and encourage shared work and lessons: Level I Campus Conversations, Level II Going Public, Level III National Networks of Teaching Academy Campuses.