Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts

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    Welcome

    The Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts at St. Olaf welcomes you to teach and be taught. It is only in relationship with each other that St. Olaf becomes a living place of culture, learning, and change both outward and inward. Join us in community as new faculty bring fresh perspective and all faculty learn how to stay refreshed.
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    A campus locus for conversations about learning and teaching in the liberal arts.

    Recent decades have brought dramatic changes in the ways we structure knowledge, in what we have come to understand about effective teaching and learning, and in the possibilities for integrating technology in improving teaching and learning. The Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts (CILA) was founded in 2000 to provide support for St. Olaf College faculty and staff working to meet the challenges posed by these changes. On the premise that the liberal arts colleges are ideal laboratories for pedagogical innovation and reform, CILA provides time and space for conversations and collaboration among faculty about learning and teaching.

    CILA Co-Directors