Past Events

CTLgrads Learning Community: Beyond Participation: Inclusive Perspectives on Student Engagement and Feedback (Session 2) - for graduate students  Register here. Student participation is desirable in any classroom, and yet it remains challenging to define its scope: how can we address the value of participation effectively and through an inclusive lens? This two-part learning community will focus both on the student perspective and the instructor perspective of participation, namely student engagement and feedback, while considering the intersections between these practices and those of inclusive…

Register here. Practice developing class activities that align with your learning objectives for students and incentivize all students to participate. Join the CTL for this workshop for graduate students focused on giving you strategies to better engage students in their own learning. In this workshop, we will discuss the evidence and efficacy of a variety of active learning strategies, and consider how these approaches can make our classrooms more inclusive. Prior to this session, participants are expected to have completed…

Register here. Historians and paleoclimatologists approach the past from vastly different traditions and experiences but share a passion for past environments and peoples. In this presentation, three scholars will discuss how a cold call in 2011 initiated a dialogue between a historian (Nicola Di Cosmo) and a group of paleoclimatologists (Amy Hessl, Caroline Leland, Neil Pederson, Oyunsanaa Byambasuren, Baatarbileg Nachin, and Kevin Anchukaitis) that would change our understanding of steppe empires and the role of climate in their evolution. The…