About Us
Purpose
The CTLT's purpose is to provide Cal Poly educators with knowledge and support to develop skills and expertise for exemplary teaching on their journey toward excellence.
Mission
The CTLT's mission is helping educators create equitable and inclusive learning environments and experiences that maximize success for all Cal Poly students. We provide evidence-informed guidance for course design, learning activities and teaching strategies that incorporate best practices in accessibility, equity and inclusion. Our programs and services are informed by scholarship, designed to model effective instruction practices, tailored to the realities of educators’ priorities, focused on well-defined curricular outcomes, and integrated with academic technologies that support teaching and learning success.
Team Members
Members of the CTLT team come from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds but we share a deep interest in the scholarship on teaching and learning as well as a passion for sharing what we have learned with our colleagues. Team members are listed below, and individual profiles are available on our Team Members page.
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stacey Aragon, BA | Administrative Support Coordinator | staragon@calpoly.edu | 756-5570 |
| Pamela Dougherty, MS | Instructional Designer / Accessibility Specialist | padoughe@calpoly.edu | 756-7381 |
| Catherine Hillman, MS | Instructional Designer / Online Instruction Specialist | cehillma@calpoly.edu | 756-5576 |
| Sarah Macdonald, PhD |
Assistant Director / Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Instruction |
smacdo05@calpoly.edu | 756-7635 |
| Tonia Malone, MS | Instructional Designer / LMS Administrator | tmalone@calpoly.edu | 756-6336 |
| Patrick O'Sullivan, PhD | Director | posulliv@calpoly.edu | 756-7244 |
| Anurag Pande, PhD | Faculty Liaison for Service Learning / Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering | apande@calpoly.edu | 756-2104 |
| Vidya Schalk, PhD |
Sustainability Faculty Fellow |
vschalk@calpoly.edu | 756- 2566 |
| Dianna Winslow, PhD |
Assistant Director / Writing Instruction Specialist |
diwinslo@calpoly.edu | 756-7526 |
CTLT's Diversity Action Plan
Spring 2023
This plan articulates the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s (CTLT) goals in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion and the intended actions designed to achieve them. The CTLT’s role as a unit dedicated to supporting campus educators means that our DAP goals encompass two areas: (1) Programming and services goals that will support campus educators to become more equity-minded and inclusive in their teaching, and (2) Staff development goals intended to contribute to continuing education for all CTLT staff on issues related to DEI in higher education and operational goals that are designed to infuse equity and inclusion into the CTLT's internal policies and practices.
Stipend Policies
CTLT offers modest stipends for a limited number of extended workshops, subject to the policies described in the CTLT Stipend Policies document (updated June 2024). Click below to download the pdf.
