University of Dallas Center for Teaching and Learning
Welcome to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Director: Jacob Moldenhauer (Physics), Committee members: Mark Petersen (History), Jennifer Bannister (Business: Accounting), Sarah Berry (English), Jonathan Dannatt (Chemistry), Saadia Bihmidine (Biology), Christi Ivers (Spanish), Chris Bell (Psychology), John Soriano (Economics), and Ana Henriquez (Academic Success).
The Center for Teaching and Learning is a cross-disciplinary, faculty-led initiative to support excellence in teaching, scholarship, professional development, and convivial collegiality.
The Center is working to develop a new program for the upcoming academic year that will, of course, include weekly lunches at noon on Wednesday, Fruits of Sabbatical, the writing group and several new initiatives.
This is the CTL lunch schedule for Spring 2025. We will be adding the rest of the semester lunch schedule as soon as we have confirmations. We will meet in the Gorman Faculty Lounge unless otherwise noted.
CTL Lunches, Spring 2025
Date (Wednesdays, 12-1 pm) | Topic | Faculty Presenter(s) | Moderator(s) / Notes |
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1/22 | No Lunch Due to Start of Classes | ||
1/29 | Alternative Grading Practices | Small group discussions | Jacob Moldenhauer |
2/5 | How Do You Use Brightspace? | Inimary Toby, Saadia Bihmidine, Brett Landry, Wendy Clayton, Vanessa Cox | Christi Ivers |
2/12 | Admissions at a Glance: Strategies and Success Stories | Andrew Ellison and Carey Christenberry | Jonathan Dannatt |
2/19 | Executive Orders and Higher Ed | Debbie Zimmerman, Cherie Hohertz, Jim Murphy, Matthias Vorwerk | Jacob Moldenhauer |
2/26 | Course Evals: Helpful, Harmful, or Somewhere in Between? | William Cody, John Kaisersatt, Paul Phillips | Ana Henriquez |
The Faculty Writing Group meets on average every other week. “Writing” is understood broadly here: In past semesters, though many participants have been working on articles or books, some faculty have used this group to help them work on grant applications, sustain a series of research meetings and gather equipment and staff for summer research projects. Anything that contributes to your research and requires long-range planning would qualify as “writing” here. To learn more, email Dr. Sarah E. Berry at sberry@udallas.edu.
If you have received an award or achieved an accomplishment that you would like to share with your colleagues, please email Dr. Jacob Moldenhauer at ctl@udallas.edu.
Information on the Writing Group, Writing Retreat and the Fruits of Sabbatical can be found on the pages linked in this section. If you have any suggestions for future or current programming, please email Dr. Jacob Moldenhauer at ctl@udallas.edu.
Contact:
Jacob Moldenauer ctl@udallas.edu