About Creative & Academic Technology

Creative & Academic Technology is a teamwork and technology hub. We inspire collaborative innovation through support for challenge-based projects and other social ventures. CAT empowers the ACU community in leveraging technology to solve real-world problems and to equip them with digital skills for the future. We can help you discover data, design solutions, and deploy web-based content. CAT seeks to increase the reach and resilience of our partners’ research and creative inquiry.

What We Do

Discover

DISCOVER new ways to support ideas, data, and problems with the use of technology, information resources, and team dynamics theory.

  • Research Support
  • Data Analysis
  • Survey Creation and Administration
  • Data Collection

Design

DESIGN real-world application for students and faculty.

  • Experience-based Learning
  • Adobe Solutions
  • Data Visualization
  • Presentation Design
  • Web-based Training

Deploy

DEPLOY the curation of your created solutions through web-based innovation.

  • Web Development
  • Institutional Repository
  • Digital Publishing Support
  • ePortfolio Creation

CAT Staff

Dr. Marisa Beard

Associate Dean of Educational Technology and Creative & Academic Technology

Amos Gutierrez

Assistant Director of Creative & Academic Technology

Micah Heatwole

Creative & Academic Technology Specialist

Our Space

Our office is located on the top floor of the ACU Brown Library (LIB 326).