Fall Faculty Workshop 2025
Register Now!
Thurs., August 21, 2025 | 10:30am-2:30pm | Maucker Union
Take a moment to add Fall Faculty Workshop 2025 to your August calendar. We’ll help you launch your next academic year with an informative & engaging day, with insights, fellowship, and interactivity.
Our guest this year is Paul Hanstedt, and his topic for is Becoming Wicked Instructors: Developing Effective Instruction in Catastrophic Times. The reference here is to “wicked” or intractable problems, and our world is fraught with them. From Paul:
“This workshop begins with the understanding that the problems our students face beyond the academy are complex and fluid. To be prepared for this world, graduates must be flexible in their thinking, in their communications, and in their approach to problem solving. As such, many of the “static” habits often employed in the classroom may not go far enough. What then, is required of us as we seek to better prepare our students for the challenges of the workplace and engaged citizenship? How might we restructure our assignments, our exams, our day-to-day pedagogies? This workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore these questions (and more!) and to consider the kinds of classroom approaches that will allow their students to move into the world as active agents of positive change.”
This workshop is for you if want to find ways to:
ACKNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY: In polarizing times, we all need skills for engaging in constructive controversy.
INVITE STUDENT AUTHORITY SOONER: We learn best by doing.
COPE WITH ANXIETY: We can foster emotional intelligence.
AFFIRM THAT THIS IS WORK THAT MATTERS: We face these challenges in community.
After Dr. Hanstedt’s plenary session and a break for lunch, we will offer a selection of concurrent sessions led by colleagues from across campus.
Concurrent sessions & leaders:
Constructive controversy - Allison Rank, Center for Civic Education
Social & emotional learning - Kerri Clopton, Educational Psychology, Foundations, & Leadership Studies
Open pedagogy - Anne Marie Gruber, Rod Library; Jayme Renfro, Political Science
Undergraduate research - Adam Butler, Psychology
Problem-based learning - Alicia Rosburg, Economics
Join us!!!
When you register we make sure we’ve got you covered for lunch AND we put you in the running to win your own copy of Hanstedt's book, Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World. Thirty-five books will be distributed on a rolling basis, with new winners announced each month, May through August.