
Helping Colleges and Universities Accomplish More
Customized faculty development and teaching and learning support that expands capacity without expanding headcount.
What is CTL Catalyst?
CTL Catalyst helps colleges and universities expand their capacity for faculty development, teaching, and learning by turning ideas into practical, polished resources, learning experiences, and initiatives. We partner with institutions and teaching and learning teams to provide flexible, project-based support that moves important work from idea to impact.
Who We Help
Support for the people supporting faculty.
Institutions Without a Formal Teaching and Learning Center
Build meaningful faculty development support without creating a new department. CTL Catalyst can help develop the resources, learning opportunities, and initiatives your faculty need.
Small or Growing Teaching and Learning Centers
Extend your team’s capacity when priorities outpace available time. We can take on defined projects, develop resources, or help move initiatives forward while your team stays focused on its core work.
Established Teaching and Learning Teams
Bring in flexible support when a major project, new initiative, or growing wish list exceeds your team’s available time. CTL Catalyst can step in for a defined project without adding a permanent position.
See CTL Catalyst in Action
See what CTL Catalyst can create. Explore an interactive faculty development experience, watch the Teaching & Learning Coach in action, and visit Our Work to see more examples of how we can help bring teaching and learning projects to life.
These portfolio demonstrations illustrate the kinds of customized projects CTL Catalyst can develop for your institution.
What We Help Create
From concept to finished deliverable

Faculty Needs Assessments and Planning
Use faculty input to identify meaningful, data-informed development priorities. Move beyond collecting feedback to uncover actionable opportunities that can shape future faculty development efforts. Potential deliverables include faculty needs-assessment surveys, summaries of findings, and prioritized professional development plans tailored to your institution.

Faculty Guides and Toolkits
Create practical resources faculty can turn to when they need them. Bring together clear guidance, helpful tools, and ready-to-use materials that make information easier to find and put into practice.

Faculty Workshops and Asynchronous Learning
Engage faculty with learning experiences built around their needs. Provide flexible opportunities to learn, reflect, and apply new ideas through live or on-demand formats.

Presentations and Infographics
Make complex information easier to understand and engage with. Turn key ideas, data, and messages into clear, polished visuals designed for your audience and purpose.

New Faculty Onboarding Resources
Help new faculty start with clarity and confidence. Provide structured resources that connect them with institutional expectations, essential processes, available support, and opportunities for professional growth.

Annual Reports and Impact Stories
Show the reach, results, and impact of your work. Bring together data, accomplishments, and outcomes in a compelling format that communicates your story to faculty, institutional leaders, accreditors, and other key audiences.

Research Briefs and Evidence-Based Resources
Turn research into information people can actually use. Translate evidence, emerging practices, and complex topics into accessible resources that support informed decisions and strengthen teaching and learning.

Custom Teaching and Learning Projects
Bring the project on your wish list to life. Collaborate with CTL Catalyst on tailored teaching and learning initiatives that respond to your institution’s unique needs, priorities, and goals.
Why CTL Catalyst?
Higher education experience. Practical project capacity.

Built on Real Higher Education Experience
CTL Catalyst is grounded in more than 15 years of higher education experience, including faculty development, teaching and learning, academic leadership, and faculty roles. We understand the work because our approach was shaped by doing it.
Designed for the Realities of Higher Education
Good ideas compete with limited time, competing priorities, and work that cannot simply be set aside. CTL Catalyst provides flexible, project-based support that works within those realities rather than adding another long-term commitment.

Focused on Work You Can Actually Use
Recommendations have value, but sometimes you need the work completed. CTL Catalyst can help assess the need, shape the idea, and create the polished resource, learning experience, report, or other deliverable that moves the work forward.

Expand Capacity Without Expanding Headcount
Get additional support for a defined project, short-term initiative, or period of heavier demand. Add the expertise and project capacity you need without creating another permanent position.

Built Around Your Institution
Start with your faculty, culture, priorities, resources, and goals rather than a generic template. Develop resources and solutions that reflect your institutional context and are designed for the people who will actually use them.

Where Faculty Development Meets Communication
Make good ideas easier for faculty to understand, access, and use. Combine teaching and learning expertise with clear communication, thoughtful resource design, and practical implementation.
How it Works
You share. We create.
1Collaborate
Share your ideas, priorities, and what you hope to accomplish.
2Plan
Together, we define the project's scope, deliverables, timeline, and cost.
3Develop
We create your customized deliverables with opportunities for feedback.
4Deliver
Receive your completed resources, ready to put to use.
What could your team accomplish with a little more capacity?
Tell us what's on your wish list! Whether you have a specific project in mind or an idea you're still exploring, we'd love to hear about it. Share a little about your institution's needs, and we'll follow up to discuss how CTL Catalyst can help bring your ideas to life.
Prefer email? Reach us at collaborate@ctlcatalyst.org to start a conversation about your project.
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Explore Ideas. Inspire Practice.
Join us twice monthly as we explore scholarly research, emerging ideas, and practical strategies for teaching, learning, and scholarship in higher education.
Connect with CTL Catalyst
Have a teaching and learning project in mind? We'd love to hear about it! Connect with CTL Catalyst at collaborate@ctlcatalyst.org to explore how we can help bring your ideas to life. You can also follow us on social media for podcast updates, examples of our work, and other CTL Catalyst news.
Business Hours
Monday–Friday | 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Central Time
Meetings by appointment
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