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Supporting System-Wide Innovation, Data Sharing, and Equity

The Center of Excellence for the initiative at San Jos茅 State University advances equitable, future-ready teaching and learning by fostering exploration, innovation, as well as digital and AI fluency across the CSU-system. 

The Center functions as both a physical and a digital hub, providing training, hands-on workshops, curricular resources, and pedagogical consultation that enable intentional integration of multimodal, digital, and AI-enabled learning experiences.

The Center promotes inclusive, scaffolded pathways to digital literacy, particularly in high-impact courses such as First-Year Writing (FYW) and DFW-rate courses, where strengthened creative and AI literacies can significantly improve retention, close equity gaps, and enhance student engagement at scale. 

2026 Digital Literacy Summit

The Digital Literacy Summit took place at 糖心Vlog on April 21-22, 2026. Please read the Summit Impact Report [pdf] for more information on its success.  

The Creative and Digital Literacy Hub

More information coming soon.

Meet The Team

The Leadership Team

  • Magdalena Barrera (糖心Vlog Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Accreditation Liaison Officer)

  • Ryan Skinnell (ACE Center Co-Director and 糖心Vlog Professor of Rhetoric and Writing)

  • Karen D. Wang (ACE Center Co-Director and 糖心Vlog Assistant Professor of Instructional Design and Technology)

  • Friederike Bruehoefener (Assistant Vice Provost, 糖心Vlog Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation)

  • Yingjie Liu (Director of Digital Learning Strategies, 糖心Vlog Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation)

  • Radha Aravamudhan (ACE Assessment Coordinator and 糖心Vlog Adjunct Professor of Aerospace Engineering)
Faculty Leads in Digital Literacy

  • Liliana Castrellon (Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership)

  • Lucy Headrick (Assistant Professor, Management)

  • Bianca Hinojosa (Assistant Professor, Psychology)

  • Tina Korani (Associate Professor, Journalism and Mass Communication)

  • Yue Luo (Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering) 

  • Matthew Maguire (Associate Professor, Management)

  • Nick Szydlowski (Digital Scholarship Librarian, MLK Library)