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October updates from the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

Center for Leadership, Teaching and Learning (CLTL)

Fall programming is off and running. Two Mellon-funded Racial Justice Learning Communities are underway and Scholarly and Creative Endeavors Work Groups are meeting for lunch on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (there鈥檚 still room to join!). Nine people are participating in the Teaching Support Network, 17 in the AI Learning Clusters, and the Skill2Build AI Institute is fully enrolled with a perfect mix of faculty and staff.

The two AI initiatives鈥� first training in September provided a ducky time for all. Also in September, the CLTL collaborated with Macalester College for conversation on AI in higher education with Eddie Watson. Macalester generously shared, for better or for worse (pace: ethical issues, environmental concerns, privacy matters, etc.), a .

AI initiatives training

The CLTL team is delighted to announce the addition of Anna Paul 鈥�25. Paul has been an instrumental part of developing the IdeaLab course Allies in Learning and Teaching, which she and other students are piloting this semester. She brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the position.

Supporting effective learning environments:鈥� Resources for faculty 

鈥孫ver the past two years, members of the Working Group for Inclusive Teaching (supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) worked to broadly understand the campus鈥檚 values around teaching and learning. They have developed an extensive annotated bibliography to support faculty who would like new ways to incorporate guiding principles into their teaching. 

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鈥孲upport services for students 

鈥孖n addition to the in-person services provided by the Counseling Center, 麻豆破解版 provides services through BetterMynd, which provides students with up to 12 sessions of teletherapy per academic year. Students will also be able to access up to three group skill-building workshops each year. The Student Assessment and Intervention Group (SAIG) remains a resource to about students (e.g., attendance). 

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鈥孨ational Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) 

鈥屄槎蛊平獍� is an institutional member of the NCFDD, which provides free access to many excellent professional development tools, including a Tuesday, Oct. 22, webinar, , and a Friday, Nov. 15, Zoom conversation, . 

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鈥孎unding for new Black Studies courses鈥�� 

鈥孴hanks to the generous support of the Mellon Foundation through a three-year grant, 鈥淎fricana Studies and the Humanities at 麻豆破解版: Transnational Explorations in Social Justice,鈥� we can offer stipends of $1,000 to faculty who successfully considerably revise or create a new course cross-listed with the Black Studies Program (BST).鈥� Visit the CLTL announcements page for more information.

鈥楿nderstanding Neurodiversity and Working with Students Who Are on the Autism Spectrum鈥� with Rachel Mann-Rosan

  • 鈥�When and where: 12:30-2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, second floor 
  • 鈥孌别蝉肠谤颈辫迟颈辞苍: Have you wondered how to better understand neurodiversity and serve autistic students? Clinical psychologist Mann-Rosan will offer a solution-oriented approach to specific concerns and challenges submitted by attendees. Please by Monday, Oct. 21, to share concerns and preferences.
Rachel Mann-Rosan

鈥業nteractive鈥疭tudent-Faculty Pedagogy Partnership Panel and Discussion鈥� 

  • 鈥學hen and where: 5:30-7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, on Zoom 
  • 鈥�Description: Three pairs of student-faculty partners from Bryn Mawr College, Agnes Scott College, and Carleton College will discuss their student-faculty pedagogy partnership programs. The discussion will be facilitated by Lucia Hulsether, assistant professor in religious studies, and co-sponsored by the CLTL, HHMI, and students in IL 258: Allies in Learning and Teaching. Find more details on the CLTL Programming page.

(Spooky) Research Salon with Sarah Sweeney: 鈥楳y Deepfake Dad (Photographs and Conversations)鈥�

  • 鈥�When and where: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Weller Room (Lib 212) 
  • 鈥孌别蝉肠谤颈辫迟颈辞苍:鈥疌an you make new memories with someone who is dead? In two interrelated projects, Sweeney attempts to answer that question.鈥�淐onversations with My Deepfake Dad鈥� is a series of six conversations created through interactions with the audio deepfake of her father who died 30 years ago.
Sarah Sweeney, image from collection

Tune in and tune up...

  • In August, Rachel Roe-Dale, professor of mathematics and statistics and director of the First-Year Experience program, and Matt Lucas, the F. William Harder Chair of Business Administration, taught a workshop on how to use AI to develop engaging classroom experiences.  
  • 鈥孡isten to 鈥淣othing Never Happens: A Radical Pedagogy Podcast,鈥� and , featuring feminist instructional designer and disability studies scholar Sarah E. Silverman. The episode is co-hosted by Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Lucia Hulsether and titled 鈥淟ight it Up: Accessible Learning or Academic Surveillance.鈥�

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