Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Returning to the Classroom—A Lunch-Time Discussion

Join us for Mary Ellen Bertolini’s retirement reception.

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts J-Term Series, these workshops focused on Project Based Learning will be led by guest speakers, Kristin Boudreau and Rick Vaz from Worchester Polytech Institute. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts J-Term Series, these workshops focused on Project Based Learning will be led by guest speakers, Kristin Boudreau and Rick Vaz from Worchester Polytech Institute. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

  EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

Come to the awards ceremony for the Paul W. Ward ’25 Memorial Prize in writing for the Class of 2021. The prize recognizes those second-year students who the faculty judge to have produced outstanding essays in writing classes during their first year. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research at 802.443.3131 or by email at ctlr@middlebury.edu.

Faculty and staff are invited to participate in this year’s Learning Institute, sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research. The theme of the institute is “Lessons Learned and Future Plans: Teaching through a Pandemic.”

Learn about fellowships with late fall/winter deadlines: Beinecke, Goldwater, Hollings, PPIA, Rangel Summer Program, Truman, Udall and more. These include awards for graduate study, summer study, and undergraduate study in various fields. The session led by Dean Gates will provide a quick overview of fellowships and nomination process. Session will be recorded. See more information and a list of fellowships at http://go.middlebury.edu/fellowships. A Zoom link will be provided when you register.

Have you heard the phrase “text mining” and wondered exactly what that means? Are you curious about how digital tools can help you analyze large amounts of text? Join Ryan Clement, Data Services Librarian, Leanne Galletly, User Experience and Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Sarah Payne, DLA Postdoctoral Fellow, for an introductory workshop on text mining. This two-hour workshop will introduce participants to the the text mining tool Voyant and provide further avenues for text analysis exploration. No prior experience with text mining is required.
Please RSVP by January 15.

Join Dr. Jennifer Domagal-Goldman for a discussion and workshop on how to incorporate civic learning and engagement into disciplinary courses—and why this is important. Discussion will include theoretical frameworks utilized in the field, high impact pedagogies for facilitating civic learning, and a brainstorming activity about bringing discipline-specific content and pedagogy into existing or new courses.

The Axinn Center for the Humanities presents its inaugural lecture by Emily Bernard: “Black is the Body: Writing about Race in America”

Racial identity is a construction. But just because it is a fiction does not make it untrue. In this talk, Emily Bernard  discusses the complex and central role of storytelling as a source of power, meaning, and beauty in her life as a writer, reader, and scholar of African American experience.