Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

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.

 

Thinking of applying for a Fulbright or Watson fellowship in the fall? The deadline for preliminary applications is April 15, 2019 so join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of why these two opportunities are so coveted and how to get started applying. Detailed information is available at go.middlebury.edu/fellowships.

“Groove Camp” is for anyone who wants write or to focus in any other quiet way on things that are work-related. There are no disciplinary restrictions, and there is no expectation that you will show what you have been working on to anyone present.

“Groove Camp” is for anyone who wants write or to focus in any other quiet way on things that are work-related. There are no disciplinary restrictions, and there is no expectation that you will show what you have been working on to anyone present.

Faculty and staff are invited to join a group of folks working quietly together for all four weeks of Winter Term on whatever it is that will advance their individual work agendas. This endeavor is mainly about getting you to a place where you can turn off everything else and work productively in the company of others seeking the same goal.

Faculty and staff are invited to join a group of folks working quietly together for all four weeks of Winter Term on whatever it is that will advance their individual work agendas. This endeavor is mainly about getting you to a place where you can turn off everything else and work productively in the company of others seeking the same goal.