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2025-26 Faculty Development Programming

The Center for Teaching and Learning’s Fy 25-26 Program Guide is live! Explore our exciting lineup of workshops, events, and resources designed to help you thrive in your academic journey. Find the perfect program to elevate your skills, connect with peers, and explore the vanguard of higher education pedagogy. The CTL reviews applications on a rolling basis, so apply today!

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iTeach Online

Description

iTeach Online is self-paced and consists of five modules. Participants will be guided through preparing course materials, such as a schedule, learning objectives, and syllabus, with support and feedback from facilitators. The time estimate for completing all five modules is 30-40…

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SoTL @ UAF 2025 – Academic Writing in the Context of AI

Description

SoTL@UAF facilitates a group of UAF faculty as they research the impact of pedagogical changes in their courses using a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) approach. Join a research team! For the 2025-2026 academic year, SOTL@UAF will bring together instructors, across department and rank, who ask students to write as a form of assessment – or who previously asked students to write as a form of assessment, but stopped due to the rise of generative AI tools like Chat-GPT. This program will build a cohort of instructors facing similar challenges in developing effective written assignments and assessing student writing as a mechanism for learning. When: Runs 18 August 2025 – 01 May 2026
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Upcoming Events & Past Events

  • Summer 2025 Book Club

    Summer 2025 Book Club

    Join colleagues from across UAF this summer to read and discuss Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education by Sharon Stein.  “A paradigm-shifting treatise, Unsettling the University compels fundamental transformation of academic institutions, relations, and praxis.”  – Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University Participants in this book club will meet regularly…

  • June Writing Retreat ’25

    June Writing Retreat ’25

    Calling All Graduate Students: Elevate Your Writing at Our Online Retreat This June! Are you a Master’s or PhD student ready to take your writing to the next level? Join us for an immersive Online Writing Retreat this June, designed specifically for graduate students like YOU! What to Expect: Retreat Highlights: When and Where Date:…

  • Reimagining UAF – A Two-Part Series on Innovation in Higher Education

    Reimagining UAF – A Two-Part Series on Innovation in Higher Education

    Join Us for “Uni-versity: Alternative Visions for Higher Education” – A Two-Part Series on Innovation in Higher Education Innovation in higher education doesn’t have to wait for perfect conditions—it can start with conversation, imagination, and connection. In this two-part series, we invite UAF staff and faculty to explore new possibilities for the future of our…

  • Virtual Production Show and Tell

    Virtual Production Show and Tell

    Due to unforeseen schedule changes, we are rescheduling this event to 12-1pm, 19 February 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience this might create.

  • Ideation Studio at the MILL

    Ideation Studio at the MILL

    Ideation Studio is a series of hands-on workshops intended to help researchers, faculty, staff and students work together to solve Alaska challenges across silos. Participants network with others, come up with new ideas, expand on existing ideas and discover how others are solving complex and wicked problems in Alaska. Participants automatically qualify to apply for…

  • Graduate Writing Retreat Spring ’25

    Graduate Writing Retreat Spring ’25

    Graduate students working on theses, dissertations, and major academic writing projects are invited to register for a free, facilitated, 3-day Writing Retreat. This retreat will support students in organizing their research, making progress on writing, and connecting with other students and support staff as they work through projects at any stage of the writing process,…

  • Kevin Gannon: Visiting Scholar

    Kevin Gannon: Visiting Scholar

    On February 26 and 27th, 2025 Dr. Kevin Gannon will visit the UAF Troth Yeddha’ campus to deliver a public lecture and workshop series.  Kevin Gannon is Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. He is the author of Radical…

  • Graduate TA Orientation (Spring 2025)

    025 Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation. This is an opportunity to meet other graduate students, learn from their experience, and oriented with teaching support and resources offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the UAF Graduate School. View the agenda. Date: January 10, 2025, 12:30 pm- 2:00 pm Location: Bunnell 140  and on Zoom…

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    12 Ways of Google

    12 Ways of Google

    Usually we offer “12 Days of Google” but this year we are doing 12 WAYS using screencasts to allow folks to access the resources asynchronously. These short, 5–7 minute videos, led by our expert instructional designers and Google for Education certified trainers, are designed to help you quickly learn practical tips and tools to enhance…

  • MILL Makerspace November Challenge

    MILL Makerspace November Challenge

    What Are You Thankful For? Now is a great time of year to pause and reflect on what brings joy and gratitude into our lives. Whether it’s the people who support us, hobbies that bring us happiness, or moments that have shaped us, acknowledging what we’re thankful for helps us focus on the positive things…

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    Mindful Art Making for Self-Care

    Mindful Art Making for Self-Care

    Join us for an hour of sensory engagement through a free-flow painting and writing exercise in a non-judgemental space. No previous experience is required. It can be a powerful tool for stress reduction and relaxation, processing emotions, and enhancing self-awareness. Can’t come at noon? Drop in to the MILL from 1-3pm instead. The MILL (Making…

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    MILL Makerspace Inktober Challenge

    MILL Makerspace Inktober Challenge

    This month we are participating in Inktober. The challenge of consistently responding to a daily drawing prompt throughout the month. “Inktober is a month long art challenge created by artist Jake Parker that is focused on improving skill and developing positive drawing habits.” (www.inktober.com) For the MILL’s version of these prompts, consider the proposal that…

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Makerspace

UAF CTL has a makerspace that is opening for the Fall 2023 semester. This space will be open for both faculty and students to use. More details will be shared when this space is officially launched.

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Transdisciplinary iTeach

This workshop explores how transdisciplinary activities in your course may help engage and motivate students to be more successful. Make content relevant to a variety of discipline areas and encourage students to be well-rounded and open to new ideas, skills they can take to any classroom and to the workplace.

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LEAP

In the Learner Experience Advocacy Program, undergraduate students learn about course feedback strategies and partner with participating instructors to observe and share feedback on course design and delivery. The goals of the program are to meaningfully improve the learner experience at UAF, build community among instructor and student leaders, and provide professional development to students and instructors alike.

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iTeach Online

iTeach Online is a cohort-based workshop where faculty work on building their courses in the company of their peers. Attention to best practices, course alignment, student engagement and usability are emphasized. Synchronous sessions allow for cohort building and tool practice.

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SoTL iTeach

In 2023, with support from the Provost’s Office, the Center for Student Success, and UAF CTL, faculty will work together to review student success data in their courses, ask questions about barriers and contributors to success, and design interventions to address disparities identified through this process. For example, that Alaska Native students were less successful in the identified courses than their non-Indigenous peers due to exclusive, Western education norms and practices in UAF classrooms. The program will follow participants through at least one semester of teaching with these interventions to help understand and document their impacts. Finally, participants will share their learning with a wider audience through a written report, presentation, grant or SEP proposal, or other method.

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Quality Matters

Quality Matters (QM) is a nationally recognized peer review process for certifying quality in online courses. UAF is a QM subscribing institution. To get started, you may choose to pursue a self-guided review, or arrange for a formal review of your hybrid or online course.

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