About
The Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching offers many services and programs to help ensure Bowdoin students reach their highest potential as learners, communicators, and problem solvers.
The Center also works with faculty and staff who want to improve their skills as educators.
To provide support for Bowdoin’s diverse academic community, the Baldwin Center team is made up of experienced scholars with deep backgrounds in pedagogy, education, psychology, language learning, and STEM fields. They specialize in academic mentoring and coaching, academic communication for multilingual speakers, quantitative reasoning, writing and rhetoric, and faculty development.
For Students
At any time in their Bowdoin career, students are invited to schedule one-on-one coaching with Baldwin staff members, either online or in person. These can be a one-time visit, when needed, or weekly sessions throughout the academic year. Additionally, the Center offers students group programs, like its “Wicked Smart Groups,” to discuss strategies for overcoming obstacles to academic achievement, such as ADHD or procrastination.
Peer mentoring is an important component of the Baldwin Center’s offerings. A large cohort of students, our peer tutors, undergo extensive professional development to provide mentoring in all academic areas. Tutors—who are trained as academic mentors, writing assistants, quantitative tutors, or course-specific learning assistants—help with a variety of tasks, from brainstorming topics for a first paper to cultivating effective study skills.
For Faculty
To support faculty, the Baldwin Center offers workshops and events throughout both semesters and the summer that cover topics such as course design, first-year writing seminars, and balancing teaching and research. The team is also available for individual consultations.
Faculty who want to learn more about the scholarship of teaching and learning, and about strategies to enhance student belonging, confidence, and equity in the classroom, can apply for a Baldwin CLT Faculty Fellowship. The one-year program offers a learning community to explore how to optimize student learning outcomes by creating inclusive and equitable learning environments.
Through services and programs such as these, the Baldwin Center promotes intentional, inclusive, equitable, and effective learning and teaching environments across campus.
The Baldwin Center opened in 1999–2000, through a gift to the College from Linda G. Baldwin ’73.