Events

In Spring '24, the faculty approved the new DIV-R graduation requirement.  To help support development of DIV-R courses, we'll be hosting a three workshop series.  Full titles and descriptions are coming soon!

•  Tuesday, February 25th, 11:30am-12:30pm, Sykes Formal Lounge
•  Tuesday, March 25th, 11:30am-12:30pm, Sykes Formal Lounge
•  Tuesday, April 22nd, 11:30am-12:30pm, Sykes Formal Lounge

Friday, January 24th, 1-2pm, Frost-Ferguson Room, ODY

To support student learning, feedback and grading needs to be helpful and timely.  It also has to be manageable for faculty with a wide-range of responsibilities.  This session will cover approaches to grading (both in terms of syllabus construction and offering feedback) to balance these competing needs, and to help faculty fit effective grading into a healthy working life.

Friday, March 7th, 1-2pm, Frost-Ferguson Room, ODY

In a piece for the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Sarah Rose Kavanaugh wrote that "one of the rare silver linings of the early pandemic years was a sudden broadening of attentiveness on college campuses to student-centered teaching," an approach to teaching that prioritizes recognizing and meeting the needs of students as learners, such as through flexible deadlines, new approaches to grading, and use of active learning techniques.  However, taken too far, student-centered learning can place too many burdens on faculty, contributing to burn-out.  This session will cover how we can preserve the most important insights from student-centered teaching while still placing limits that benefit students and ourselves as faculty.

Friday, April 4th, 1-2pm, Frost-Ferguson Room, ODY

This session is aimed at faculty who have tried, or are considering trying, to make use of Generative AI in our classrooms.  We'll follow-up on how these assignments are working, or not working, and how we might improve them.