The Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning

Provide accessible, high-quality professional learning opportunities that respond to the needs of faculty across career stages, disciplines, campuses, and teaching modalities. Serve as a collaborative hub for faculty that brings together colleagues, instructional expertise, campus resources, and opportunities for sustained professional growth.

Build faculty and departmental capacity to design, deliver, and evaluate academically rigorous, engaging, and accessible face-to-face, online, hybrid, and other emerging forms of instruction. Support course and program development that is responsive to student needs, institutional priorities, and evolving educational and workforce demands.

Support course designs, instructional practices, learning environments, and assessment strategies that reduce barriers, strengthen student engagement and belonging, and provide all students with meaningful opportunities to learn and succeed.

Help faculty identify, adapt, and implement pedagogical approaches supported by research, and disciplinary knowledge. Encourage thoughtful responses to changing student needs, emerging technologies, and new developments in both higher education and the workforce.  Support effective adoption of educational technology through strategic training.

Create opportunities for faculty to investigate questions about teaching, experiment with new approaches, reflect on evidence of student learning, and share their work through instructional design consultations, faculty learning communities, peer collaboration, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Use multiple forms of evidence to assess the reach, quality, and effects of CITL programs. Document changes in faculty knowledge, instructional practice, course quality, and student learning, and use the findings to guide continuous improvement and communicate the CITL’s institutional value.