Center Affiliates

We welcome individuals involved in educator development to become affiliates. If you're part of educator growth efforts at MSU, whether formal or informal, join our affiliates to enhance educator practices through collaboration.
 

Why Be an Affiliate?

With MSU’s vast community, it’s challenging to recognize all high-impact educational practices. CTLI affiliates help bridge gaps and prevent duplicated efforts, fostering collaboration across the university.
 

Benefits

  • Share: Develop new programs and resources. Share your expertise widely with CTLI’s support through workshops and more.
  • Connect: Meet educators with similar interests. Collaborate on programming and support with like-minded peers.
  • Grow: Enhance professional development. Share your workshops and expand your reach at MSU.

Affiliates have exclusive access to annual planning summits, influencing MSU’s educational support strategies.
 

What Do Affiliates Do?

CTLI affiliates enhance existing efforts by sharing resources, employing best practices, and engaging in MSU’s educator network. We tailor affiliation to your needs and provide an annual memorandum of understanding. Affiliates maintain their current roles while optimizing and connecting their efforts across MSU. Together, we aim to streamline educator development and strengthen MSU’s teaching and learning culture.
 

How To Become An Affiliate

Ready to share, connect, and grow with us? Contact Makena Neal at mneal@msu.edu to get started. Affiliating with CTLI empowers you to shape MSU’s supportive environment for educators.
 

Meet Our Affiliates

Stephanie Baier

  • Role: Director of Instructional Development for Graduate Students and Postdocs, The Graduate School
  • Focus: Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) preparation and teaching professional development
  • Impact: Enhances student success through focused assessments

Brittany Dillman

  • Role: Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) Curriculum Developer and Instructor
  • Focus: Advising and curriculum development in Educational Technology
  • Impact: Supports students in exploring decision-making in education

Monaca Eaton

  • Role: Associate Director for Teaching and Learning, School of Social Work
  • Focus: Trauma-informed and relational teaching
  • Impact: Creates equitable and meaningful learning experiences

Brandy Ellison

  • Role: Assistant Professor, Center for Integrative Studies in Social Science
  • Focus: Pedagogical strategies for large courses and equity
  • Impact: Promotes belonging and diversity in first-year student teaching

Crystal Eustice

  • Role: Teaching Specialist, Department of Community Sustainability
  • Focus: Sustainable tourism and ecological farming education
  • Impact: Bridges applied research with educational practices

Jeff Gerlach

  • Role: Training Program Developer III and Instructional Designer, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Focus: Creating effective learning experiences across educational settings
  • Impact: Utilizes Agile methods to design and implement diverse learning solutions

Caitlin Kirby

  • Role: Associate Director for Research, Enhanced Digital Learning Initiative
  • Focus: Professional development and assessment alignment
  • Impact: Develops discipline-spanning classroom interventions

Meghan Loughlin-Krusky (she/her)

  • Role: Training Program Developer and Instructional Designer, MSU Extension
  • Focus: Fostering educational best practices and engaging learners across digital mediums
  • Impact: Supports exceptional online, hybrid, and in-person learning experiences

Sheila Marquardt

  • Role: Coordinator of Global Initiatives, Office of Undergraduate Education
  • Focus: Curriculum design for First Year Seminar Abroad programs
  • Impact: Advances global education through innovative teaching

Casey McArdle

  • Role: Director of Experience Architecture and Assistant Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures
  • Focus: Online interaction via academic and professional spaces
  • Impact: Researches experience architecture and design in education

Sara Miller

  • Role: Teaching and Learning Librarian
  • Focus: Information literacy and its disciplinary connections
  • Impact: Builds interdisciplinary partnerships to enhance teaching

Ashley Moore

  • Role: Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education
  • Focus: Social justice teacher preparation and the role of emotion in education
  • Impact: Advancing pedagogical approaches through Critical Whiteness Studies

Meg Moore

  • Role: Director, Graduate School Office of Well-Being
  • Focus: Graduate student socialization, identity development, and leadership
  • Impact: Conducts workshops on team dynamics and conflict resolution

Rabindra (Robby) Ratan

  • Role: Associate Professor and AT&T Endowed Chair, Department of Media and Information; Director, SPARTIE Lab
  • Focus: Human-technology interaction and media influence
  • Impact: Researches the Proteus effect and virtual reality education

Hima Rawal

  • Role: Doctoral Candidate, Second Language Studies Program
  • Focus: Trauma-informed teaching and critical multilingual awareness
  • Impact: Engages in inclusive excellence initiatives to support diverse educational settings

Scott Schopieray

  • Role: Assistant Dean for Academic and Research Technology, College of Arts and Letters; Associate Director, MESH Research
  • Focus: Supporting digital infrastructure in teaching and research
  • Impact: Develops high-impact online teaching methods and digital publishing

Jessica Sender

  • Role: Librarian for the College of Nursing and Coordinator of Teaching and Learning Technologies, MSU Libraries
  • Focus: Enhancing research skills across all levels and developing educational technology capacity
  • Impact: Streamlining citation and research management processes

Tyler Smeltekop

  • Role: Assistant Director of Assistive Technology Innovation, Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities
  • Focus: Expanding accessible technologies and equitable experiences
  • Impact: Tailors solutions for diverse individual needs

Patti Stewart (she/her)

  • Role: Director of Education and Development Programs, Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
  • Focus: Inclusive culture-building and curriculum design
  • Impact: Facilitates inclusive excellence learning across the institution

Imari Cheyne Tetu

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant, Enhanced Digital Learning Initiative; Ph.D. student, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures
  • Focus: AI writing tools and UX research
  • Impact: Enhances web accessibility and technical communication

Stephen Thomas

  • Role: Assistant Dean for STEM Education Teaching and Learning; Associate Director, Center for Integrative Studies in General Science; Digital Curriculum Coordinator, College of Natural Science
  • Focus: Curriculum development in non-major science courses
  • Impact: Collaborates on STEM teaching communities and research