Welcome
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
Cheri Coutermash (she, her, hers)
Academic Administrative Assistant – Team North
Nancy Thompson (she, her, hers)
Professor of Art and Art History; Department Chair of Art and Art History; Director of Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts