The University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) was the first teaching center in the United States, founded in 1962. Nearly 52% of the nearly 6,300 instructional staff on the Ann Arbor campus are non-tenure-track faculty, and in 2004, lecturers unionized to gain collective bargaining rights. College administrators recognized a need to better support NTTF. As a result, the college created a Lecturer Advisory Committee and appointed a faculty member to work part time to coordinate lecturer development. The director of lecturer development is now partnering with CRLT-Engin to create professional development events specifically for NTTF.