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Building a History Lab and Finding Wonder in the Boring

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Dan Bouk, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Colgate, created a History Lab for students to contribute research to his recent book on the 1940 Census. Join us for lunch to learn about their collaborative work and to discuss ways in which humanists can learn from and teach with all the stuff “shrouded in cloaks of boringness”: bureaucracies, budgets, censuses, and all sorts of public and private numbers.

Register for the Tuesday in-person lunch.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public

ChatGPT: What is it and How to Address it in a Syllabus and Course

Sponsored by:
Writing and Rhetoric Program, Center for Teaching, Learning and Research, and Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry
ChatGPT has come into academia with great force. What’s been written about this tool covers a wide range, from doom and gloom to prognostications of great, creative change. ChatGPT is a disruptor in a good sense. Educators are being asked to reflect on practice, and come to an understanding about how to creatively work with the tool, the first of many to come in this second wave of technological innovation, the AI Revolution.

Davis Family Library Wilson Media Development Lab

Closed to the Public
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Starting Where You Are: A Teachers’ Exchange on Inclusive Design for Learning

Sponsored by:
Office of Institutional Diversity Equity & Inclusion and Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Lisa Elfring currently serves as Associate Vice Provost of Instruction and Assessment at the University of Arizona, co-leading the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT). She is a continuing Specialist in Biology Education in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public

Teaching with ChatGPT

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Building upon the ChatGPT Workshop in January (See the resources list and watch the video from the workshop.) This second ChatGPT-related event, supported by the CTLR, but designed and hosted by our friends in WRPR & DLINQ, will take place in LIB 105 from 12:15 – 1:30 on Feb. 28.

We ask that both in-person and virtual attendees register by Feb. 20 so that we can plan appropriately for food.

Davis Family Library 105A

Closed to the Public

Fulbright and Watson Fellowship Information Session

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
The Watson Fellowship provides funding for the year 2023-2024 to pursue an international, multi-country independent, self-designed project. 
Fulbright provides a year of funding for 2023-2024 for activities including graduate study, independent research, and English teaching assistant positions. Join Dean Lisa Gates to learn about the Fulbright scholarship and Watson Fellowship programs, the application process, and updates for next year.

Davis Family Library 201- Watson Lecture Hall

Closed to the Public

UK/Irish Fellowship Information Session

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK or Ireland? Join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of how to apply for a UK-Irish scholarship and what makes an ideal candidate. Scholarship competitions discussed include the Churchill, Gates-Cambridge, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, St. Andrews scholarships.

The deadline for the UK-Irish nomination application is April 5, 2023. See go/uk-irish for detailed information or go.middlebury.edu/fellowships.

Davis Family Library 201- Watson Lecture Hall

Closed to the Public
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2023 Student Spring Symposium

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
The Spring Student Symposium is an all-campus event that provides students an opportunity to showcase their academic projects to a campus-wide audience in a professional conference setting. The symposium will be a celebratory day for student presentations scheduled for Friday April 14, 2023.

The symposium allows students of all academic disciplines and graduation years to present independent research through oral presentations, posters, and artwork. Classes are canceled, allowing the entire Middlebury community to come out to enjoy the intellectual inquiry and inspiration.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall

Open to the Public

CANCELED Making the Most of Course Response Forms

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Join us for this lunch and discussion about course response forms with former members of the COR and academic administrators. CRFs don’t need to be scary or something to avoid. How might we embrace course response forms as a constructive tool towards reflection about our teaching practices and greater pedagogical effectiveness? Following the discussion, attendees can get assistance from CTLR staff in rethinking their syllabi in advance of the spring semester posting deadline.

To see the full schedule and register see - go.middlebury.edu/cts
Closed to the Public

Investing Students in the Work of the Academy

Sponsored by:
Center for Teaching, Learning and Research
Join us for this lunch and panel discussion focused on different ways that faculty/staff collaborate with students. How do they all stand to benefit from working together? What conditions are most suitable for effective, collaborative learning? Panelists include Laura Lesta Garcia (Luso-Hispanic Studies) & a PBL Project Assistant, Sarah Lohnes Watulak (DLINQ) & Inclusive Design Studio students, Brandon Baird (Luso-Hispanic Studies) & a research assistant, and Amanda Crocker (Neuroscience) & a course tutor.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public