Teaching Excellence and Collaboration Center
EVENTS
Teaching Excellence and Collaboration Center
EVENTS
Monday, Aug 24, 2026
11am-12pm
and
3pm-4pm
(Faculty only need attend one session)
Teaching Triangles Information Sessions
📍 Location: Ballard Center Classroom
👥 Open to all Full-time and Adjunct Faculty
💡 About: Come learn about a program designed to help you reflect on your teaching practices and grow your repertoire of teaching strategies through classroom observations and discussion with a small group of faculty peers. We hope to have faculty from all disciplines and experience levels participate. We hope this program will be a starting point for an engaged, reflective practice to help you think more deeply about how you teach and how you find fulfillment in the classroom.
Sept 1-5, 2025
Open Classrooms Week
📍 Location: On campus; location and times vary
👥 Open to all full-time and adjunct faculty
💡 This event allows faculty to drop into a class session taught by a colleague to see how others teach and, hopefully, pick up a new teaching strategy or two! This is a completely voluntary event and is not connected to the formal observation process that occurs between department chairs and faculty. A list of participating faculty and the times/locations of their classes will be emailed to faculty ahead of time.
Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026
and
Thursday, Aug 27, 2026
and
Thursday, Aug 27, 2026
Office Hours Open House Extravaganza
📍 Location: Faculty Offices
💡 About: On these two days, all faculty across campus are encouraged to invite students to drop in their offices to see what office hours are all about! Faculty will be provided decorations for their office doors and snacks for students who drop in. Students will have "passports" that faculty can stamp; students can then enter their completed passports for raffle prizes.
SEPT 16, 2025
and
OCT 13, 2025
and
OCT 13, 2025
C-Cubed Roundtables
📍 Location: Buchheit Boardroom
⏰ When: September 16 from 3:30 – 5:00 and October 13 from 3:30 – 5:00
👥 Open to all full-time and adjunct faculty
💡 C-Cubed Roundtables provide faculty an informal opportunity to discuss teaching challenges and successes with peers. These are also opportunities to give and receive advice and suggestions related to teaching. For the September 16 Roundtable, the topic will be Fostering Student Engagement. For the October 13 Roundtable, the topic is an open forum. We hope to see you there!
Oct 6-10, 2025
(pre-MSI meeting to take place the week of September 22)
Mid-Semester Interviews
📍 Location: On campus; location and times vary
👥 Open to all full-time and adjunct faculty
💡 Mid-Semester Interviews, or MSI's, are a way for you to gain insights into your students' experiences in class, offering you ideas for how to make your teaching even more effective in the second half of the semester. During an MSI, a faculty member will come to your classroom and solicit feedback from your students while you are not present; you will then do the same for your faculty partner. This offers students an anonymous space to share their ideas about how to increase their learning in your classroom. The process takes approximately 20 minutes (and then your normal class will resume). You and your faculty partner will meet after the MSIs to discuss the results, collaborating with each other to develop a plan that incorporates student feedback into your teaching practices.
SEPT 16, 2025 AND
OCT 13, 2025
OCT 13, 2025
C-Cubed Roundtables
📍 Location: TBD
⏰ When: September 16 from 3:30 – 5:00 and October 13 from 3:30 – 5:00
👥 Open to all full-time and adjunct faculty
💡 C-Cubed Roundtables provide faculty an informal opportunity to discuss teaching challenges and successes with peers. These are also opportunities to give and receive advice and suggestions related to teaching. C-Cubed Roundtables may have a set topic, or they may be open-topic. More details about the Fall 2025 Roundtables will be posted soon.