Pre-Meeting Workshops

In an ever-changing higher education landscape, academic leaders are tasked with navigating complex challenges related to both student and faculty success. Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) play a crucial, yet often underutilized, role in addressing these challenges by fostering collaboration, innovation, and community-building within institutions.

This interactive pre-conference session will explore how academic leaders can leverage the unique strengths of CTLs to address pressing concerns such as student learning outcomes, faculty well-being, retention, and institutional change. Participants will be guided through case studies and real-world examples demonstrating how CTLs have successfully partnered with academic leaders to create environments conducive to both student and faculty success.

Throughout the session, participants will engage in problem-solving activities relevant to their own campus contexts. They will work in small groups to develop actionable strategies that can be implemented in their institutions, allowing them to leave the session with concrete plans for leveraging CTLs as key partners in fostering thriving academic communities.

This workshop is presented by the POD Network. Pre-registration is required for attending this event.

Cost:
Members: $180
Nonmembers: $200

In an era of unprecedented challenges--such as generative AI, declining trust in the academy, budget pressures, political resistance to DEI, and so on--how are educational developers adapting their strategies to ensure equity and student success? The work of educational development makes critical contributions to educational equity and student success. We present research-in-progress about a recent large survey of educational developers in the United States, with significant representation from a variety of institutional types.

In this session, we focus on three key findings: (1) changes in aims over the past 20 years, (2) alignment of educational development tactics with evidence-based approaches, and (3) current perceived institutional support for educational development work to advance these aims. Across all three questions, we will examine patterns related to institutional type and highlight issues of equity.

We will present preliminary findings and also use the session as a “member check,” or an opportunity to discuss participants’ insights about trends, implications, and recommendations for deepening the value of educational development for students, educators, institutions, and the field.

Cost:
$160/Member
$200/Nonmember

Pre-registration is required for attending this event.

The 2024 election season promised to be especially challenging, with extreme polarization, campus unrest, threats to academic freedom, legislation curtailing diversity, equity, and inclusion, mandating neutrality, and more. Here, we’ll consider innovations to address these challenges and how they can be used to turn conflict into opportunities for better discourse and learning year-round.

Cost:
$160/Member
$200/Nonmember

Pre-registration is required for attending this event.