This series on syllabus design will meet in Walker 1220 (Gibeling Room) for two sessions: Thursday, August 21, 2025 and Thursday, August 28, 2025 from 10 am to 12 noon. 

Session 1: Fundamentals of an inclusive syllabus: components, considerations, challenges. 

Diversity statements are prerequisites for many positions on the academic job market. These statements demonstrate an individual’s commitment to supporting and prioritizing diversity through their research, teaching, and service.

Why do you teach? How do you teach? How do you measure your effectiveness? Most academic job applications require applicants to address these questions in a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (SoTP). Developing a SoTP can help you clarify your goals as an educator and reflect on how you teach.

Are you designing your own course for summer session or the academic job market? In this workshop, you will learn strategies to guide you in course design and lesson planning.

This workshop's focus is to critically reflect as well as practice crafting syllabi with an eye towards equity. By critically examining and practicing syllabus design, participants will gain the knowledge and tools to make impactful as well as equitable learning experiences.

 AI literacy is an emergent core competency for the 21st century, but supporting students’ development in this area can lead to complex considerations about assessment, teaching, and the very nature and purpose of learning.

Digital technologies are ubiquitous in higher education and can be leveraged in a variety of ways to enhance student learning.

Grading fatigue is a common challenge for educators, but what if grading could be more efficient and more engaging for students? This workshop explores strategies to combat grading fatigue while maintaining high-quality feedback and assessment.

How do you judge what "works" in your teaching and what doesn't? How do you improve quarter-to-quarter, or even during the quarter? Asking and answering these questions is a form of metacognition. In this workshop, you will reflect on your thought process about your teaching.

Many academics are asked to write recommendation letters or letters of reference for colleagues and mentees. While these high-stakes documents are integral to a competitive dossier, few academics have received formal training on how to write these letters.

Generative AI (GenAI) has rapidly initiated potentially significant changes in the way higher education approaches teaching, learning, and assessment. Yet, our understanding of how GenAI can be used to enrich learning is still developing. In this workshop, Dr.

In this workshop participants will understand the classroom experiences of queer and trans students. Participants will explore teaching strategies to help support queer and trans students in the classroom and support them in navigating the university experience.

Teaching² is an Instructor Reading Circle to promote conversations on campus about teaching. It is facilitated in a conversational format designed for maximal faculty-to-faculty discussion and interaction.

Are you leading discussion sessions and seeking ways to make them more engaging, interactive, and impactful? This workshop is designed to equip discussion facilitators with practical, evidence-based active learning strategies that transform passive audiences into active participants.

Critical AI literacy is an emergent core competency for the 21st century. But unlike other core competencies like critical thinking and writing, faculty and instructors have not been developing AI literacy over the course of their entire academic careers.