The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program

St. Olaf College is pleased announce its selection to the three-year CASTL Leadership Program, as the lead institution for the theme Liberal Education: Core Curriculum .


The CASTL Institutional Leadership Program builds on the influential work undertaken by colleges and universities, campus centers and educational organizations, scholarly and professional societies, and CASTL Campus Program Leadership Clusters, to facilitate collaboration among institutions with demonstrated commitment to and capacity for action, inquiry and innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Participating institutions are organized to address specific themes important to the improvement of student learning, as well as the development and sustainability of a scholarship of teaching and learning.

Leadership themes

Building Scholarly Campus Communities

Developing Newer Scholars of Teaching and Learning

Expanding the Teaching and Learning Commons

Graduate Education and a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Liberal Education: Core Curriculum

Liberal Education: Cross-cutting Themes

Linking Cognitive and Affective Development

Policy, Assessment and Accountability for a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Scholarly Communities of Practice

Students as Scholars of Teaching and Learning

System-Wide Collaboration Supporting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Undergraduate Research and a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

St. Olaf College will work with the following other institutions:

Liberal Education: Core Curriculum


Coordinating Institution: St. Olaf College

  • College of San Mateo
  • Eastern Washington University
  • Liverpool Hope University
  • Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
  • North Carolina A&T
  • St. Jerome's University
  • University of Cincinnati

(From the Carnegie Academy for the Advancement of Teaching )