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Center for Teaching and Learning January Workshops & Events

January 8, 2024

The Center for Teaching and Learning will partner with faculty from various departments in January to present workshops focused on supporting our efforts to pursue excellence in teaching.

January 2-11

Moodle Update Drop-in Hours
Franz 107 1-4 p.m.

January 10

Alternative Grading 1- Overview and Examples from Non-Writing Intensive Courses.
Part 1: 2-hour Workshop for new and concurrent faculty stories and examples of how to integrate AG into your teaching- examples from various disciplines will be shared. Tamar More (PHY) and others.
DB 234 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Alternative Grading 2- Alternative Grading and Writing Intensive Courses.
Part 2: 1-hour workshop on Alternative grading in Writing Intensive Courses with Josh Swidzinski (ENG) and Andra Davis (SONHI).
DB 234 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

January 11

CAS/CTL Book Discussion Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks.  Contact Allie Stewart (stewarta@up.edu) for details. DB 234 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

January 12

Teaching First-Year Students: What Happened? So What? Now What?
With Brenagh Sanford and various faculty.
DB 234 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

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Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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