Welcome to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Director: Jacob Moldenhauer (Physics), Committee members: Carmen Newstreet (Education), David Upham (Politics), Sr. Elinor Gardner (Philosophy), Jennifer Bannister (Business: Accounting), Zannah Buck (Library), Michael West (English), Malcolm Kass (Economics), Mark Peterson (History), and Ana Henriquez (Student 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 the first seven sessions. We will be adding the rest of the semester lunch schedule as soon as we have confirmations.
|
Session Number |
Date (Wednesdays) noon-1pm |
Topic |
Faculty Presenter(s) | Faculty Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/31 | Student Success: Tutoring, Writing lab, How to identify students that need help, 7 Arts of Language | Ana Henriquez, Matt Spring, and Bryan De La Cruz | Ana Henriquez with a guest– James Zeller |
| 2 | 9/7 | Collegial Conversation: How to be an Effective Teacher, How to get a Haggerty Teaching Award, Book recommendation | Jose Espericueta, Katie Davis, Fr. Thomas, Dale Fodness, Renita Murimi, and Shannon Blatt | Jacob Moldenhauer with a guest--Said Bakkar |
| 3 | 9/14 | Meet the Provost | Matthias Vorwerk | Jacob Moldenhauer with a guest |
| 4 | 9/21 | Rank and Tenure Q&A | J. Lee Whittington, Mark Goodwin, and Scott Crider | Jacob Moldenhauer with a guest |
| 5 | 9/28 | Don’t ask what shared governance can do for you, ask what you can do for shared governance: The role of the Faculty Senate | Kyle Lemieux, Jacob-Ivan Eidt, and Carmen Newstreet | Mark Petersen |
| 6 | 10/5 |
How to get a sabbatical and King/Haggar Scholar Award |
John Norris, Amy Fisher-Smith, Rob Hochberg, and David Sweet | Jacob Moldenhauer with a guest |
| 7 | 10/12 |
UD Counseling Center and Student Life |
Johnathan Sumpter, Sarah Baker, and Moey Brown | Ana Henriquez with a guest |
|
8 |
10/19 | What is AAUP and why should you join? |
Jose Espericueta, Dennis Sepper, Teresa Danze, Carmen Newstreet, and Paul Phillips |
Jacob Moldenhauer and guest |
| 9 | 10/26 | Meet Campus Ministry | Fr. Joseph Paul Albin | Sr. Elinor Gardner and guest |
| 10 | 11/2 | E-Learning: Meeting UD Student Expectations, Post Pandemic | Wendy Clayton | Jacob Moldenhauer and guest |
| 11 | 11/9 | How to write/get a grant or fellowship award | Austin Westervelt Lutz, Theresa Guin and faculty guest | Jacob Moldenhauer and guest |
| 12 | 11/16 | Writing Groups: How some faculty do research during the semester | Michael West | Jacob Moldenhauer and guest |
| 13 | 11/23 | No CTL lunch due to Thanksgiving | ||
| 14 | 11/30 | No CTL lunch due to imminent Exams | ||
| 15 | 12/7 | No CTL lunch due to imminent Exams |
Faculty Writing Group: This 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 that requires long-range planning would qualify as “writing” here. To learn more, email Dr. Michael West at mwest@udallas.edu.
If you have received an award or achieved an accomplishment that you would like to share with your colleagues, please email Dr. Mark Petersen at mpetersen@udallas.edu.
Information on the Writing Group, Writing Retreat and the Fruits of Sabbatical coming soon. If you have any suggestions for future or current programming, please email, Dr. Jacob Moldenhauer ctl@udallas.edu.
Contact:
Jacob Moldenauer ctl@udallas.edu
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