News & Events
Upcoming and Ongoing Events
CTL Start-Up Grant Awardees
Monday, March 10
3:45––5:00 p.m.
MacLean 303
112 S. Michigan Ave.
Come listen to recent CTL Start-Up Grant recipients.
Panelists include: Terri Griffith and Garrett Laroy Johnson.
From developing new courses on global textiles to feminist cyber-punk, faculty used this award to create inspiring courses and course content.
CTL Teach and Tell: 2024 Learning Lab
Monday, March 17
3:30––5:00 p.m.
MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave
Members of the 2024 Learning Lab will present their summer projects.
Inspired by bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress, the CTL selected “ecstatic pedagogy” as last academic year’s theme. The topic centers teaching and learning as joyful activities that may inspire new modes of understanding and describing student and faculty success.
CTL Teach and Tell: New Art City with Claire Fleming Staples (Contemporary Practices)
Tuesday, April 1
12:00-1:00 p.m.
MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave.
New Art City is an online platform that allows users to create and navigate virtual 3-D worlds. Accessible and easy to use, the possibilities range from online exhibitions of traditional work to fantastical game-like environments with spatial sound and portals to take you from one space to the next. New Media artist and Contemporary Practices professor Claire Fleming Staples will lead a workshop for all skill-levels of aspiring exhibition and world builders––no previous experience with 3-D modeling required!
Past Events
CTL Teach and Tell: Fragmentary Writing and Mess Making
Wednesday, October 30
3:30––5:00 p.m.
MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave
This workshop provided attendees with creative and unconventional ways to support students who struggle with traditional academic writing. Raghav Rao (Liberal Arts) leds this exciting and interactive workshop.
CTL Teach and Tell: The Braid with Professor Adelheid Mers
Monday, November 18
3:30--5:00 p.m.
Jonh M. Flaxman Library (5th Floor)
37 S. Wabash Ave.
This interactive workshop introduced participants to the Braid: https://adelheidmers.org/braidmain.html
The Braid diagram evolved from conversations with artists about how they work. The three lobes of the Braid diagram were labeled Make, Mediate, and Manage. Used as prompts, the labels facilitated conversation about personal arts ecologies
CTL Teach and Tell: Critique and Kindness
Wednesday, December 4
12:00-1:00 p.m.
MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave,
Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for lunch! Held during critique week, our Lunch and Learn program enables faculty to nourish themselves. socialize, and discuss important issues that emerge during critique week.
Theme: Critique as/and Kindness
Can critique be a form of kindness? What would it mean to dislocate critique from criticism and situate the practice/activity in relation to attention, presence, and well-being? Inspired by Mark Jeffery's work and forthcoming seminar, as well as the Wellness Center's ongoing student support services, we hope to facilitate a conversation that breathes new life into how we live with others in the critique setting.
Madison Nelson