Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo

Executive Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Ohio University

Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo serves as Executive Director of Ohio University’s Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment (CTLA), dedicated to advancing teaching excellence. She oversees the CTLA’s signature program portfolio, including faculty development teaching certifications, teaching academies, faculty learning communities and communities of practice, course design and redesign institutes, support for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects, and program and general education assessment support, among other offerings. Melinda has taught in vocational/technical programs and at community colleges, private liberal arts and R-1 institutions. 

She has experience leading centers and offices of teaching and learning at The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati. Recent publications include “Supporting teaching excellence: A CTLA case study” in  Journal on Centers for Teaching and Learning; “The teaching endorsement: Identifying, recognizing and elevating the development of scholarly teachers” in Faculty development on a shoestring: Programs to support faculty using little or no resources and "Transforming the teaching of thousands: Promoting evidence-based practices at scale" in Transforming institutions: Accelerating systemic change in higher education.She has presented regionally and nationally on generative artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Her center awards GenAI in Teaching and Learning faculty development certifications for completion of deep professional learning, instructional redesign planning, implementation, assessment and reflection.

Areas of Expertise

  • Scaling faculty development programs
  • Documenting through lines from faculty development to student success
  • Instructional technology to support teaching excellence
  • Centers for teaching and learning strategic communication
  • Envisioning, building, assessing and evaluating centers for teaching and learning
  • Supporting faculty exploration of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 
  • Leveraging GenAI to support teaching and learning along three critical pathways