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Center for Teaching and Learning Constructive Dialogues Lunch

Wednesday, September 25, 12:20 -1:15 p.m., Teske Room: Faculty and staff are invited to a lunch discussion on Constructive Dialogues. The CTL is partnering with Anne Santiago, Ph.D., the Dundon-Berchtold Fellow for Constructive Dialogue, to explore how we, as faculty, can support student learning in this area. With a student body diversifying at a pace much faster than faculty demographics, along with students wanting to connect classroom experiences and content to present-day phenomena, we are likely to encounter socially challenging or politically charged topics in classroom discussions. How we manage those discussions can significantly move us forward in achieving our instructional goals. Lunch will be provided and seats are limited. Please reserve a seat by emailing CTL@up.edu by September 22, 2024.

Inclusive Teaching Scholar Program: Seeking Applicants by Friday, September 27, 2024

All full-time faculty members are invited to apply for the Inclusive Teaching Scholars Program. This program seeks to identify and support at least one person from each academic unit for a total of five or six scholars who would function as a cohort. Individually, Inclusive Teaching Scholars will undertake or enhance an inclusive pedagogical project in areas that may include inclusive classroom strategies, assignments, activities, or assessments that support diverse student perspectives, and/or the development of or utilization of learning materials from underrepresented scholars. Collectively, they would help each other, our campus enterprise, and serve as the conduit between the CTL and each academic unit for all things under the inclusive teaching umbrella. Scholars will be compensated $1,000 for participation in the year-long program. This program is funded by a grant to the University of Portland from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Inclusive Excellence Program. Applications are available here and are due September 27, 2024.

Email ctl@up.edu with questions about this program or call Terry Favero at 503-943-7373.

Other Opportunities

Lunch Discussion: Civil Discourse in our Classrooms
Tuesday, October 1, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.: Engaged Humanities @UP and the NEH-funded Civic Humanities Working Group invite all interested UP faculty to join a lunch discussion on cultivating genuine conversation, and even disagreements, in our classrooms. Ahead of the event we’ll invite attendees to read a brief recent Washington Post article on how other campuses are encouraging spaces for open discussion. Over lunch, we’ll talk about what conversation at UP looks like right now, our approaches to creating good conversation, and how we might import new ideas for fostering civil discourse on our campus from the article and elsewhere—while also considering the limits of these approaches and the thorny question of how to determine the boundaries of what we talk about in our classrooms.

Lunch will be provided and is sponsored by UP’s 3-year NEH Humanities Connections Grant, the Civic Humanities Working Group (CHWG) the grant is convening this year, and by UP’s College of Arts and Sciences. We’ll share more about the grant and the what the working group is up to as well.
Faculty from all disciplines are welcome to join, but limited seating is available. Please email Molly Hiro at hiro@up.edu to reserve your spot by September 23. Location will be shared after you RSVP.

Core Samples Lunches
Tuesday, October 8 and Wednesday, November 13, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Teske Room: All faculty and staff are invited to attend one or both of this fall's Core Samples Lunches as guests of the Garaventa Center and Core Curriculum Program. These have proven a terrific way for all of us to build our knowledge of what happens in UP's Core Curriculum. Learning from gifted teachers over free food and without exams: could it be any better?

Tuesday, October 8, 11:30-12:30: Dr. Anne Santiago from Political Science and Global Affairs will offer a sample of her Fall University Big Ideas exploration level course CORE 311X - Democracy and Diversity: Politics in an Age of Fracture. The UP Core is offering one of these larger signature courses each semester to highlight mission related themes such as civic responsibility and this course is specifically timed to help us all make sense of an intense election season.

Wednesday, November 13, 11:30-12:30: Dr. Brad Franco from the Department of History will provide a glimpse of his foundation level course HST 220: The Search for Justice in the Western Tradition. Learn about how an evolved version of the classic “Western Civ” model can help us think about what it means to define a just world.

The lunches will be in the Teske Room in the Bauccio Commons. Seating is limited. Please reserve a seat by emailing Shannon Mayer at mayers@up.edu.

Digital Lab Workshops

The Digital Lab offers free, one-hour workshops to current students, faculty, staff and alumni (space permitting). Past workshop topics for include Graphic Design, iMovie, Podcasting, Canva, and more. Visit the Digital Lab's website for a detailed schedule and to register for a spot.

Teaching with Technology Workshop Series

Teaching with Technology is an ongoing series of workshops presented by Academic Technology Services that focuses on providing professional development for UP faculty in digital skills and pedagogy. Recordings of many past trainings are available on ATSI's PilotsUP site.