Registration Now Open! 

The Eberhard Center is under construction, and that means we are shifting locations for this year's 32nd Annual Fall Conference on Teaching and Learning to the L. William Seidman Center. With that comes some restrictions on how many attendees we can accommodate in the Seidman Forum. One easy thing we can all do to ensure those who want to attend get to attend is combat the culture of the no-show. We admit being guilty of signing up for events and then forgetting we registered, deciding we don't actually want to/am unable to go, or simply thinking no one will notice if we don't show up. We notice. This also isn't a cultural phenomenon limited to Pew FTLC events.

So, we challenge you as a community to take this opportunity to practice living the mantra; if you sign up, show up.

Registering means you are committing to attending the event. We understand emergencies arise, and if they do we simply ask you let us know you are no longer able to attend so we may enable others to attend. 

Register to attend the Fall Conference on Teaching and Learning

Teaching for Student Success: Designing Learning Environments That Help Students Thrive  

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Tracie Marcella Addy 

Within the shifting sands of higher education there is a necessity for both agility and the preservation of core teaching values. During this interactive keynote session, we will explore the core value of teaching for student success. Through the application of a large body of research, we will examine principles and practices that advance effective learning environments by discussing: 

• How instructors promote student success in their courses.  
• Which instructional approaches students indicate are critical for them to thrive.  
• Sample teaching development opportunities that support the adoption of evidence-based teaching practice. 

Participants will leave with a number of takeaways as they reflect on their roles in advancing student success through teaching.  

Tracie Marcella Addy, PhD, MPhil is an accomplished academic leader in higher education. She received her BS from Duke University, MPhil from Yale University, and PhD from North Carolina State University. She is a published scholar of teaching and learning and educational development. Her two main scholarly areas of focus include learner-centered teaching practices and the work of centers for teaching and learning.  

Dr. Addy’s work has been featured in a variety of academic journals and venues, such as Inside Higher Ed and University Business. She has been an invited guest on a number of podcasts, including Teaching in Higher Ed, Tea for Teaching, Teaching for Student Success, and Dead Ideas in Teaching & Learning. She is the lead author of the books What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching (2021) and Enhancing Inclusive Instruction: Student Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Advancing Equity in Higher Education (2024). Her next book for which she is a co-author is tentatively titled Educational Development in the Age of Change and is anticipated to be released in 2026 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dr. Addy is also a frequently invited keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Follow her work on tracieaddy.com as well as Bluesky and LinkedIn. 

Books announcements forthcoming.