Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning

Mission Statement

The Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) at Connecticut College promotes engaged and effective teaching that cultivates significant student learning. The CTL fosters a campus culture that values a diversity of learning, teaching, and disciplinary styles, welcomes honest discussion of teaching and learning, and encourages the scholarship of teaching and learning.

To achieve its mission, the CTL:

• Organizes programming that facilitates the exchange of ideas about teaching and learning.
• Offers resources and support for new faculty, including programs that promote their smooth transition into the community and their success in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.
• Creates both informal and formal sources of support for faculty teaching at all stages of their careers.
• Engages in efforts to improve teaching and learning at small liberal arts colleges on the regional and national level.
• Collaborates closely with Information Services and Instructional Technology, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, and academic departments and programs in joint endeavors in support of teaching.