The Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) advises the provost on the means to encourage instructional development and teaching excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. It realizes these goals through the sponsorship of special programming and the disposition of grants to faculty members seeking funding for curricular- and technology-driven proposals to advance instructional development and teaching excellence.
Provost James V. Maher established the Council in 1998 and chaired the Council during the 1998–99 academic year. The interim chair is John Radzilowicz, director of Pedagogy, Practice, & Assessment at the University Center for Teaching and Learning.
2026-2027 Meeting Dates
- Please check back for the updated meeting schedule.
Committee Information
- ACIE Membership
2026-2027 ACIE Committee Members
Interim Chair
- John Radzilowicz, University Center for Teaching and Learning
Ex Officio
- Bonnie Falcione, Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy
- Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Learning Research and Development Center and Department of Psychology, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Faculty
- Taryn Bayles, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering
- James Coons, Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy
- Brandon Grainger, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering
- Robin E. Grubs, Department of Human Genetics, School of Public Health
- Ahmed Ibrahim, Department of Information and Networked Systems, School of Computing and Information
- Olga Klimova, Slavic Languages and Literature, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
- Michael Meyer, Department of English, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
- Marie Norman, IDEA Lab, School of Medicine
- Sandhya Rao, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
- Liann Tsoukas, Department of History, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Staff Liaisons
- Amy Tuttle, Director of Faculty Affairs, Office of the Provost
- 2019 Recommendations Report
2019 Recommendations from Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence and Subsequent Activities: An Update for the Senate Educational Policies Committee
- ACIE Meeting Minutes
Approved minutes of the ACIE meetings are available from 1998 through the current year. For earlier, archived ACIE meeting minutes, please contact ACIE staff liaison Amy Tuttle.
Approved Minutes from 2025-2026
Approved Minutes from 2024-2025
- May 6, 2025 Minutes
- March 25, 2025 Minutes
- February 5, 2025 Minutes
- January 8, 2025 Minutes
- November 12, 2024 Minutes
- October 2, 2024 Minutes
Approved Minutes from 2023-2024
Awards Program
The Innovation in Education Awards support faculty proposals which aim to reinvent traditional classroom instruction.