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CLIR Staff

Meet the team behind CLIR — dedicated faculty and staff committed to supporting research, fostering innovation, and guiding projects from ideas to impact.

Matt Tolbert

He is the founder/director of the Center for Learning Innovation and Research (CLIR) in 2023, a laboratory where undergraduate and graduate students collaborate with faculty on academic and psychological research.

He is a professor in the School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling.
Joined the faculty at Southern Adventist University in 2017.

Renee Hanson

Graduate research assistant from Southern Adventist University