Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Days where you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the week or that college should not be quite this stressful happen. Come talk with fellow students trained in time management and other strategies you can use to improve your Middlebury experience—for both your academic work and your self care. This will be an informal gathering with lots of space to ask questions!

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Commenting on student writing can be challenging and time consuming but is critical to student development. Come join Writing and Rhetoric faculty to discuss challenges, opportunities, and ways to give effective and expeditious feedback. Because this is a workshop, we invite you to bring student writing, previous feedback, or other materials to share. This session will be facilitated by Writing and Rhetoric faculty Genie Giaimo and James Chase Sanchez.

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Fulbright provides a year of funding for 2022-2023 for activities including graduate study, independent research, and English teaching assistant positions. Join Fulbright program staff and Dean Lisa Gates to learn about the Fulbright scholarship program, the application process, and updates for next year. We’ll have a large group session with a breakout room discussion with Dean Gates for Middlebury students and alumni about Middlebury’s application process. Middlebury’s preliminary application deadline is April 15.

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. The deadline for the UK-Irish nomination application is April 1, 2021.

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A Zoom link to join will be sent in your registration confirmation and in the reminder email the day before the event.

A Watson Fellowship provides funding for the 2022-2023 year for an international, multi-country independent, self-designed project. Preliminary applications are due 4/15/21. To find out more, join Dean Lisa Gates for a Zoom chat on
Tuesday, March 2 from 7-8 pm ET. You’ll learn more about what the Watson is and how to apply. See go.middlebury.edu/watson for more information about the Watson Fellowship and contact fellowships@middlebury.edu with questions.

In this workshop by Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Associate Professor of Urban Education in the College of Arts & Sciences at Rutgers University, participants will consider what new ways of knowing and being are called for in our current moment at Middlebury, in higher education, and in the world we are preparing our students to enter.

Pivoting on a full participation framework, Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community and Associate Professor of Urban Education in the College of Arts & Sciences at Rutgers University, will share the evidence-based research demonstrating a positive relationship between student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) and improved student outcomes. These curricular and co-curricular practices support student engagement, advance curricular coherence, and generate equitable outcomes.

Guest speaker Joshua Tucker from New York University and co-author of The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage will lead us in a discussion on how we speak to a general audience about our research. Whether the topic is data science, climate change, policy, history, or art, it can seem difficult for those of us steeped in the details of a subject to present our work in ways that are accessible to non-experts. In this workshop we will hear from an expert on bridging the expert-non-expert gap and will be reminded of resources at Middlebury that can assist us in broadening the audience for our work.

This workshop, led by Catharine Wright, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric/GSFS will focus on writing assignments that delve into big ideas, that invite students to explore new genres, and/or that help students develop specific skills, with emphasis on ways to design and scaffold assignments to support student success. Faculty from several programs and departments, including the Writing and Rhetoric Program, will each briefly showcase an assignment with attention to course context as well as to how students might transfer what they learn to other contexts.

Kirsten Behling is the Associate Dean of Student Accessibility & Academic Resources at Tufts University and an adjunct professor in the Disability Services in Higher Education Graduate Certificate Program at Suffolk University. This session will introduce the concept of Universal Design for Learning as a tool to support that effort. It will start by acknowledging the hard work that faculty have already done, and encourage them to adopt just one more strategy to increase access for a wide variety of learners.