About The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring (CTLM)

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring (CTLM) works to energize and amplify faculty, staff, and student efforts to support Arcadia’s innovative pedagogies and adaptive strategies. The CTLM serves the needs of all members of the Arcadia community––faculty, staff, and student peer educators––who are responsible for delivering transformative learning experiences. The CTLM Director along with Faculty, Staff, and Student CTLM Fellows work to collaboratively lead teaching, learning, and mentoring discussions and innovations on campus, shape academic continuity processes and plans and plan innovative teaching, learning, and mentoring initiatives in the coming academic year. 
 
The CTLM works to unite, support, and build up our community partners, including the JEDI commission, Information Technology, Faculty Senate, Staff Council, the Adjunct Union, Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, Office of Career Education, Office of International Programs, Student Affairs, the Library, Disability Support Services, and the Learning Resources Network.

Grounded in the belief that the entire Arcadia community should be committed to transforming lives, and recognizing the opportunities for pedagogical innovation across all disciplines, the CTLM will work to build capacity within and across units, roles, and programs to deliver on Arcadia’s mission, vision, and values. The CTLM will work to develop outreach strategies and support systems for the Inclusive Pedagogy Framework and to deepen support for faculty research and expand student involvement. Explore more of our history and major milestones. 

Dr. Ellen Skilton, professor of Education, has been appointed the inaugural Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentorship (CTLM) at Arcadia University, effective June 1. Dr. Skilton will be responsible for assembling a team of faculty, staff, and student partners to support Arcadia’s innovative pedagogies and adaptive strategies and deliver transformative learning experiences. 

Serving on the Arcadia faculty since 2004, Dr. Skilton brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position. Through administrative positions such as the chair of the Undergraduate Academic Program Committee, director of Global Connections, department chair in the School of Education, and former chair of the Academics Committee, Dr. Skilton has had tremendous success as a collaborator, leader, and mentor across departments with both faculty and staff. As an applied linguist and educational anthropologist, her ongoing scholarship focuses on asset-based policies, practices, and pedagogies for linguistically, culturally, academically, and racially diverse students. Her recent research as the University’s first Rosemary and Walter Blankley Endowed Chair in Education (2014-2017) incorporated theater arts and poetry in non-theater and non-humanities courses as tools to reflect on local/global interconnections, interdependence, and inequities.

Dr. Skilton earned a Ph.D. with distinction and an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Earlham College in Indiana.

Caitlin Marcyan '24

Bryanna Martinez-Jiminez '22

Ma’ayan Meder, ‘21

Elizabeth Parsons, ‘21

Stephanie Quarshie, '22

Mikayla Raggi '21

Keisha Robinson, '23

Dillon Shash, ‘24

Karan Singh '21

Era Joy Smith, '21

Amanda Sturman, '22

Barbara St. Fleur, '22

Courtney Thoroughgood, '22

For Staff and Faculty: 

The paid CTLM Fellows will join a diverse group of cross-campus constituents to 1) collaboratively lead teaching, learning, and mentoring discussions and innovations, 2) shape academic continuity processes and plans for the upcoming semester, and 3) continue implementation and planning for several innovative teaching, learning, and mentoring initiatives in the coming academic year.
 
Requirements: 

• Full-Time/Adjunct Faculty and Staff (with at least three years at the University) 
• Letter of interest outlining relevant passions, practices, experiences, and ideas that the candidate would bring to the CTLM and Arcadia as a Fellow.
• Interest in diving into this work as an idea generator, implementer, and action-taker.
   

Qualities We Are Seeking: 

• Experience working in teams and engaging in innovative teaching/mentoring experiences on campus.
• Comfort with online/hybrid/multimodal learning and experimentation with new approaches to engaging students.
• Commitment to student-centered, inclusive pedagogies.

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