Mission and Vision
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching promotes academic excellence by awakening, nurturing, and empowering the university community to be effective, transformative, and holistic educators who ensure quality student learning across all academic offerings at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
Values and Outcomes
CELT is animated by the deeply held Saint Mary’s value that education has the capability to transform lives, evangelize, and be the conduit for one’s vocation/calling in life.
Saint Mary’s community members who participate in development opportunities organized by CELT will be able to:
- Promote human flourishing and dignity through integrating character education, virtue formation, and mature technology-adoption within their classrooms, units, and programs
- Apply the practical wisdom of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Lasallian charism that proceeds from it to pressing concerns for higher education and our shared communities
- Embrace and develop innovative educational practices following emerging scholarship of teaching and learning
- Create whole-person learning environments in which students can develop and reach formation goals in the context of their unique vocations
- Confidently respond to different learning and leadership contexts with their own educational artistry informed by innovative and effective educational practices