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Center for Teaching and Learning
2025 Winners: Innovative Teaching and Assignments Award
The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Innovative Teaching and Assignments Award. (Read More)
AI in Education: Critics, Curious, and Cultivators (Apr. 9)
The Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to join a lunch discussion exploring the spectrum of AI engagement in student learning and development. Whether you’re skeptical about AI’s role in education, curious about its possibilities, or actively cultivating AI-enhanced learning experiences, this conversation offers a space to share perspectives and discover practical approaches for thoughtful integration. (Read More)
CTL Presents: Some Assembly Still Required (Feb. 20)
All faculty and staff are invited to join the CTL, Nicole Ralston (SOE), and Valerie Peterson (MTH) to discuss understanding and supporting today’s college students, some of whom may need additional support. We’ll explore how the rise of new media, K-12 education reforms, standardized testing culture, and pandemic disruptions have shaped our current students’ learning habits and academic expectations. (Read More).
AI and The Future of Work (Jan. 29)
Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and Natalie Nelson-Marsh from the Communication Studies program for a discussion about AI and the Workplace. (Read More).
New Program! Colleague Campus Connections
Want to peek into a colleague’s classroom and discover new teaching ideas? Want someone to visit yours and provide helpful feedback? Join Colleague Campus Connections, a new and informal program that pairs faculty members to learn from and inspire each other through casual classroom visits and conversations. (Read More).
AI Faculty Sandbox (Jan. 10)
Join Terry Favero, CTL, and Hannah Highlander, CAS, for this two-part workshop focused on using AI to improve your teaching and student learning. (Read More).
January Book Club: “Mind Over Monsters” (Jan. 8)
The College of Arts and Sciences in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning invite you to join your colleagues for a discussion of Sarah Rose Cavanaugh’s book Mind over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge. Cavanagh, a professor and psychologist, employs pedagogical, neuroscientific, and psychological research to frame an approach we can use in the classroom: compassionate challenge. (Read More).
Center for Teaching and Learning: Innovation Grants
Do you have an innovative teaching idea you are interested in deploying in your classroom? The CTL is seeking applications for its Teaching Innovation Grant program to support innovative teaching endeavors across the college. Successful applicants will receive up to $500 in stipend and an additional $500 in project budget funds. (Read More).
Fostering Balance: Virtue and Burnout in Academia—A Conversation (Nov. 1)
Faculty at small institutions often experience burnout as they fuse personal passions and identify with the work output, leading to fatigue, burnout, and, ultimately, low morale. Please join the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Faculty Welfare Committee for a lunch discussion about faculty, work, and vocation within our institutional “family” context. (Read More).