The Finch Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

The Finch Center for
Teaching and Learning (CTL)

The Finch Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Mission
Mission

Creating and implementing faculty learning opportunities
Supporting faculty inquiry and risk-taking
Providing frameworks for faculty achievement
Promoting teamwork and community support among faculty
Contributing to Maryville active learning ecosystem

About the CTL

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) began in the Spring of 2004 as a collaboration between Mary Ellen Finch, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director Marilyn Cohn, who designed a single year seminar for full time faculty to inquire about their own teaching more deeply. The one-year seminar developed into a meaningful practice for many faculty members under Marilyn’s direction, and is still a seminar available to all faculty today.

The CTL continued to evolve to include book clubs, brown bag lunches, a Scholarship for Teaching and Learning Seminar (SOTL) for the purpose of studying their own teaching.