Faculty Lunch

Are you switching to a seated final exam this spring or thinking about doing so in the fall? Are you unsure about the pedagogical value of seated final exams, but concerned about potential use of AI for take-home assessments? Join Professor Andrew Gordon...

Join Fiery Cushman (Psychology) and faculty colleagues over lunch to discuss how the section experience can be an invaluable pedagogical commodity. Done right, section forces students to use what they’ve learned, build skills of expression and listening...

Come join Gina Schouten (Philosophy) and faculty colleagues on Wednesday, January 21, 12:00-1:00pm (Plimpton Room, Barker Center 133) for a pre-semester conversation on Norm-Setting for Rich Classroom Conversations. In this session, we'll discuss...

Come join Dan Carpenter (Government), Ned Hall (Philosophy), and faculty colleagues over lunch to discuss a teaching challenge that strikes at the core of the academic enterprise: how do we teach when our students suspect our views on course material...

EVENT POSTPONED; PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR A FUTURE DATE IN THE 2022–2023 ACADEMIC YEAR Project-based classes can deeply engage students in authentic learning, but they can also be complicated to organize and manage. Open-ended student-led projects allow...

EVENT POSTPONED; PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR A FUTURE DATE IN THE 2022–2023 ACADEMIC YEAR

If there is one thing about which virtually all humanities professors, university administrators, and state legislators seem to agree these days, it's that the humanities are in a state of crisis, their enrollments in precipitous decline and their...

EVENT POSTPONED; PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR A FUTURE DATE IN THE 2022–2023 ACADEMIC YEAR Science is an active, hands-on discipline that involves problem solving, technical skill development, and data interpretation. Teaching science, however, is all-too-often...

Christina Ciocca Eller, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies With the rise of accountability in higher education, colleges and universities are sharing more data than ever before concerning their "performance"—especially in regards to their...

Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History; Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality In the fall of 2019, Robin Bernstein launched an experimental course titled "Introduction to Graduate...