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The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) helps liberal arts colleges and universities integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. With our NITLE Network members, we work to enrich undergraduate education and strengthen the liberal arts tradition. Established in 2001, NITLE is the key organization for liberal arts colleges and universities seeking to engage students in the unique learning experience that liberal education provides and to use technology strategically to advance the liberal arts mission.
NITLE: A Brief History
The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education is a community-based, non-profit initiative. It is headquartered at Southwestern University and has been led by its current executive director, W. Joseph (Joey) King, since May 2009.
NITLE was established in September 2001, through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It operated as a grant-funded initiative until December 2005, and was originally charged to stimulate collaboration between selected liberal arts colleges and to act as a catalyst for the effective integration of emerging and newer digital technologies into teaching, learning, scholarship, and information management.
In January 2006, NITLE joined with three other Mellon-funded instructional technology initiatives: the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College, the Associated Colleges of the South’s Technology Center (based at Southwestern University), and the Midwest Instructional Technology Center, which was led by the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. This unified national initiative was headquartered at Ithaka Harbors, Inc. (now ITHAKA) until May 2009.
NITLE has two past executive directors: Clara Yu, who later served as the 12th president of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and Jo Ellen Parker, now president of Sweet Briar College.
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With the new academic year now well under way, I want to take a moment to update you on recent activity at NITLE. Our organization, I’m pleased to report, continues on a positive trajectory. Let me draw your attention to some specific developments that are advancing our mission to help liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. Read Dr. King’s full letter. -
On September 9th, Lee Cuba, former dean of Wellesley College, Katie Conboy, vice president for academic affairs at Stonehill College, and Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at NITLE, delivered a trio of talks at a Trinity University symposium on the changing landscape of liberal arts education. The symposium was sponsored by Trinity Tomorrow, the university’s strategic planning committee.