Our longtime newsletter, CTL Weekly Update, is distributed to CTL Campus Leaders by email every Friday afternoon. Leaders forward items to faculty on each campus. The Weekly Update can also be found online at the CTL Faculty Lounge, where you can subscribe to an RSS feed and get the updates directly, as they're issued each Friday.

CTL also communicates with faculty via the Center for Teaching & Learning blog, and of course we have a Facebook page. Be a fan!

From 2006-2008, the Center for Teaching and Learning published a monthly newsletter called "Monthly Update." Issues are archived below by topic. In addition to newsletters, we offer CTL Clippings, CTL's blog on a wide range of teaching and learning issues.

Here are the Scholarship of the Center for Teaching and Learning (SoCTL) themed newsletter editions from 2007-2008:

• The First-Year Student
  Monthly Update from CTL 2-29 08 (HTML) (PDF)
• Serving the Underserved
  Monthly Update from CTL 2-04 08 (HTML) (PDF)
• Classroom Assessment
  Monthly Update from CTL 1-14-08 (HTML) (PDF)

• Student Behavior in the Classroom
  Monthy Update from CTL 11-05 07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Teaching for Student Persistence
  Monthly Update from CTL 10-1-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Old Need, New Tools: Fostering Critical Thinking in Online Social Networks
  Monthly Update from CTL 9-10-07 (HTML) (PDF)

Here are the Scholarship of the Center for Teaching and Learning (SoCTL) themed newsletter editions from 2006-2007:

• Teaching our Increasingly Diverse Students
  The Future for Faculty
  Weekly Update from CTL 4-30-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Good Teaching
  Clarity, Enthusiasm, and Organization Linked to Increased Content Knowledge
  Weekly Update from CTL 4-23-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Faculty Student Contact
  Important in Our Practice of Pedagogy
  Weekly Update from CTL 4-09-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Faculty Portfolios
  Comprehensive, Illustrative, and Precise
  Weekly Update from CTL 4-02-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Quality Contact
  Faculty-Student Collaborative Projects
  Weekly Update from CTL 3-26-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Mid-Semester Evaluations
  Timely Feedback and Potent Teaching
  Weekly Update from CTL 3-19-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Doing and Thinking
  Integrating Professional and Liberal Education
  Weekly Update from CTL 3-12-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Core Student Outcomes
  Essential Tools in a Dynamic Global Century
  Weekly Update from CTL 2-26-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Multicultural Approaches to Curriculum
  Active, Deep, and Engaging Learning
  Weekly Update from CTL 2-19-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• The Faculty-Student Relationship
  Changes in Teaching and Learning
  Weekly Update from CTL 2-12-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Teaching First Year Students
  Building Success for the Following Years
  Weekly Update from CTL 2-05-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• A Focus on Outcomes to be Improved
  Plus and Minuses of Technology in the Classroom
  Weekly Update from CTL 1-29-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Instructional Grants
  Improved Instruction, Student Learning and Innovative Practice
  Weekly Update from CTL 1-22-07 (HTML) (PDF)
• Civility in the Classroom
  The Call for Respect and Responsibility
  Weekly Update from CTL 1-15-07 (HTML) (PDF)

• Assess as We Go
  Signposts Along the Learning Path
  Weekly Update from CTL 12-4-06
• Faculty Research
  Get Your Students Involved
  Weekly Update from CTL 11-20-06
• We were Never Taught to Teach
  Faculty in Real Classrooms
  Weekly Update from CTL 11-13-06
• Faculty Sharing Classroom Strategies
  More Learning for More Students
  Weekly Update from CTL 11-6-06
• The Challenge of the Under Prepared Student
  Faculty Involvement Does Make a Difference
  Weekly Update from CTL 10-30-06
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  The Institution as Learner
  Weekly Update from CTL 10-16-06
• Faculty Peer Review and Mentorship
  Observing, Sharing, Improving Teaching and Learning
  Weekly Update from CTL 10-9-06
• Faculty Mentorship
  Getting Started
  Weekly Update from CTL 10-2-06
• Learning Communities
  Increased Retention, Higher Student Achievement
  Weekly Update from CTL 9-25-06
• Learning Communities and Team Teaching
  Toward an Ideal Faculty Workplace
  Weekly Update from CTL 9-15-06
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  Simply Defined
  Weekly Update from CTL 9-08-06
• Best College Teachers
  Deep Learning and Do No Harm
  Weekly Update from CTL 9-01-06

The following archived newsletters date from the early days of the CTL and Minnesota State Colleges & Universities (established 1998.) They were published during the tenure of our second chancellor, Morris J. Anderson (1997 – 2001.) Here you will get a taste of how the CTL emerged during the formative years of the system. These newsletters often include pictures from many CTL events, so you will see past campus leaders, faculty development coordinators and CTL staff. Enjoy browsing.

Newsletter Archive

• CTL Update Vol. 2. No. 3 April 2001
• CTL Update Vol. 2. No. 2 January 2001
• CTL Update Vol. 2. No. 1 September 2000
• CTL Update Vol. 1. No.5 June 2000
• CTL Update Vol. 1. No. 4 February 2000
• CTL Update Vol. 1 No.3 December 1999
• CTL Update Vol. 1 No.2 September 1999
• CTL Update Vol. 1 No.1 July 1999
• CTL Forum Vol. 7 No. 3 September 1998
• CTL Forum Vol. 7 No. 2 May 1998
• CTL Forum Vol. 7 No. 1 February 1998