Dr. Kim Manturuk has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Online Education (CETLOE), effective July 1.

Dr. Manturuk is currently a Lecturer of Sociology and Director of the Office of Curricular Evaluation at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

She has held a variety of administrative positions at institutions in the Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle, including as an associate director at Duke University’s Research, Evaluation, and Development unit, which is a part of its Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education center.

During the pandemic, Dr. Manturuk’s role included managing collaborations among some of the teams in the center, including the Learning Experience Design, Learning Technology, and Teaching Innovation teams.

In a prior role in the same unit, she was Head of Evaluation and Learner Experience Research. As a sociologist trained in program evaluation, Dr. Manturuk has trained some of her research on questions related to pedagogies and learning technologies.

She has served as a lecturer in sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill since 2008 and is a co-author of A Place Called Home: The Social Dimensions of Homeownership, published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Dr. Manturuk received her master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill, and recently earned a Master of Business Administration from UNC-Wilmington.

CETLOE advances the scholarship and practice of exemplary instruction at Georgia State, and is key to student success through innovations and best-practices in teaching and learning regardless of course modality.

It is a unit of the Office of Academic Affairs, one of the divisions which reports to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.

— Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager for the Office of the Provost