About Us
The Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology is Cal Poly’s teaching support team serving the entire campus. Our purpose is to provide all Cal Poly educators with the information and support they need to develop the skills and knowledge to enhance their journey toward teaching excellence.
The CTLT is committed to helping faculty create equitable and inclusive learning environments for our students at Cal Poly. We provide guidance in course design, learning activities and teaching strategies that incorporate best practices in accessibility, equity and inclusion.
We provide a broad range of programming and services in support of Cal Poly’s “Learn By Doing” philosophy that addresses the complexities and challenges of an ever changing world. Our support opportunities 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.
We offer confidential consultations and customized programming. We welcome collaborations with colleges, departments, and faculty cohorts to help develop effective responses to teaching and learning opportunities and challenges.
We are located in the Kennedy Library (Building 35) in room 319.
History
CTLT was established in summer 2012 in a reorganization that brought the former Center for Teaching and Learning and the Academic Technology group in ITS under one umbrella. The CTL, which had been under Academic Personnel, had served the campus since 2001 with events, workshops, and grant programs. the Academic Technology group had been created in spring 2012 as a unit of Information Services. The reorganization moved the CTL’s operations and staff from Academic Personnel into Information Services and merged them with Academic Technology to create CTLT. A realignment in January 2014 moved the CTLT out of Information Services so that it was a part of Academic Programs and Planning.
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 | Administrative Support Coordinator | staragon@calpoly.edu | 756-5570 |
| Pamela Dougherty | Instructional Designer / Accessibility Specialist | padoughe@calpoly.edu | 756-7381 |
| Catherine Hillman | Instructional Designer / Online Instruction Specialist | cehillma@calpoly.edu | 756-5576 |
| Sarah Macdonald |
Assistant Director / Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Instruction |
smacdo05@calpoly.edu | 756-7635 |
| Tonia Malone | Instructional Designer / LMS Administrator | tmalone@calpoly.edu | 756-6336 |
| Patrick O'Sullivan | Director | posulliv@calpoly.edu | 756-7244 |
| Anne Regan |
Campus Coordinator, Affordable Learning Solutions |
aregan@calpoly.edu | 756-7042 |
| Dianna Winslow |
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 July 2022). Click below to download the pdf.
