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Center for Teaching and Learning

News & Events

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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

CTL Fall Open House

Friday, August 22
2:00–4:00 p.m.
MacLean 303 or online

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites all faculty to its fall semester open house. Join us any time between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. in MacLean 303 or online. Work with us and other SAIC faculty to finalize your course materials, learn about academic accommodation resources for you and students, or develop student learning outcomes and course goals.

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CTL Learning Lab Information Session

To learn more about the Learning Lab program and how to apply, please join us for an information session. We will review the application process, as well as the scope of work and schedule for the academic year.

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CTL Faculty Learning Community Information Session

To learn more about the CTL's Faculty Learning Community, please attend this information session. We will review details about the application process, call for faculty facilitators, and other important points.

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News from the CTL

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CTL Teach and Tell: New Art City with Claire Fleming Staples

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CTL Teach and Tells: Start-Up Grant Awardees

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The Center for Teaching and Learning Announces Learning Lab Fellows

Past Events

  • Why AI: SAIC Students Speak
    Wednesday, April 23

    This all-student panel is intended to nurture a conversation about how and why SAIC students use AI in studio and academic settings and what they think about the ethical implications of such technologies in their work and beyond it. Co-sponsored with SAIC's Liberal Arts Department.

    CTL/Senate Sustainability Subcommittee
    Monday, April 21

    The Senate Sustainability Committee and the Center for Teaching and Learning are excited to co-host a skill share on sustainability and pedagogy. This event will provide an opportunity for faculty to come together and share their knowledge, experiences, and innovative teaching practices related to sustainability.

    Join us for presentations from our esteemed faculty colleagues Dr. Andrew Scarpelli in AT/SP, Odile Compagnon in AIADO, and Marie Herwald Hermann in Ceramics.

    CTL Teach and Tell: New Art City with Claire Fleming Staples (Contemporary Practices)
    Tuesday, April 1

    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!

  • CTL Teach and Tell: Critique and Kindness
    Wednesday, December 4

    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.

    CTL Teach and Tell: The Braid with Professor Adelheid Mers
    Monday, November 18

    This interactive workshop introduced participants to the Braid. 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: Fragmentary Writing and Mess Making
    Wednesday, October 30

    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.

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