May 20, 2025 – From Class to Campus: Helping Students Communicate about Contentious Issues

22 May 2025

How can classes help students dialogue about contentious and politically charged topics? Karen Scott joins our discussion of teaching strategies for cultivating dialogue, including: modeling good practice, normalizing disagreement, mindful…

October 15, 2024 -What to do in the Days Following the Election

16 October 2024

This session provided guidance to faculty and staff about how to talk about the 2024 election with their classes or student employees, particularly in the days following the election. In…

Jan 25, 2022: Leveraging the Power of Civic and Community-Based Learning in a Time of Change

18 February 2022

At a time of enormous change in the world, the United States, and particularly within higher education, should we be rethinking everything we know about community-based learning, or should we…

Jan 21, 2020: Teaching With Census Data: Experiences Across Campus

15 January 2020

Census 2020 is almost underway, and in this timely session faculty panelists will share experiences of teaching students how to use census data to support learning and research. Faculty will…

Oct 23, 2018: Teaching in the #metoo Era

26 October 2018

The #metoo movement has drawn much needed attention to issues of sexual abuse and asymmetrical exercise of power in the broader culture. A reckoning of sorts is underway particularly in…

May 9, 2017: Truth, Information Literacy, and the American Way: Assignments that Make Sense of Current Events

10 May 2017

Continuing the campus discussion about how we respond to current events, this panel will feature faculty and librarians discussing assignments and strategies to encourage critical thinking and information literacy in…

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