NEW FOR FALL 2017

• Faculty Learning Communities now accepting applications – thirteen different topical, semester-long opportunities, facilitated by your faculty colleagues 
• Innovations in Distance Learning Initiative – if your department is working on an innovative project involving distance education, consider applying for this special opportunity
• Did you miss the Fall Conference on Teaching and Learning? It was really great. Learn more about the keynote presentation as well as the concurrent sessions facilitated by faculty. Many people have requested the PowerPoint slides from the keynote as well as for the pre-conference workshop on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Email Christine Rener if you would like to receive a copy. 

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN RESPONSE TO CHARLOTTESVILLE

During national crises, such as the current events in Charlottesville, students and faculty can become emotionally charged, feel mentally drained, and be uncertain about how to respond to opposing viewpoints with humility. The links below provide strategies to help faculty create teachable moments in times of crises and develop respectful rapport despite varied perspectives.

• Responding to Critical Incidents, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia
• “Charlottesville Syllabus,” UVA Graduate Student Coalition, University of Virginia 
• Teaching After Charlottesville, The Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
• Facilitating Challenging Discussions in Effective Ways, Queens College, CUNY
• Listen, Affirm, Respond, Add – The LARA Method to Create Dialogue, The Program on Intergroup Relations, University of Michigan
• "Defining Academic Freedom," Inside Higher Ed, December 21, 2010