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Allies in Learning and Teaching

Allies in Learning and Teaching (ALT) is a pilot teacher-learner liaison program. Designed with both students and faculty in mind, student liaisons collaborate with professors to create more equitable and accessible classrooms by facilitating faculty-student communication and offering insights into pedagogical practices. To request that a trained student work with you this semester, complete this brief form.

Mental Health First Aid: Help Build 撸短视频鈥檚 Community of Care

Date: Saturday, September 19 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. with a lunch break included

Description: Mental Health First Aid provides practical tools for recognizing when someone may be struggling and responding with greater confidence and care. Participants will leave with useful strategies, resources, and skills they can draw on in both professional and personal settings.

撸短视频 was selected by the New York State Conference of Local Mental Health Directors and the New York State Office of Mental Health to offer this evidence-based training to our campus community. The program has reached millions of participants across the United States and internationally. Interested in participating? to reserve your spot.

The AI-Resistant Classroom

Kaylin O鈥橠ell (English), Dominique Vuvan (Psychology), and Erica Wojcik (Psychology) are back to offer a four-part workshop series throughout the academic year that highlights challenges, shares effective strategies, and focuses on peer-to-peer collaborative development of AI-resistant assignments, assessments, and activities. You are not required to attend all workshops to participate.

Assignment Potluck on Friday, September 25, from 2:30-4 p.m.

Bring one (or more!) assignments that you鈥檝e developed that support non-AI student work to share with the group. You are particularly encouraged to share assignments that you have already used in previous semesters. The workshop will be a combination of paired, small group, and large group work, and you鈥檒l come away with plenty of new assignment ideas inspired by your colleagues! Don鈥檛 worry- we鈥檒l provide the snacks.

Teatime: Let鈥檚 Talk Student Accommodations

Come chat about all things related to student accommodations with Meg Hegener, Director of Accessibility Services in The Learning Commons. Have questions about how accommodations work in practice, what your role is as an instructor, or how to navigate situations that feel unclear or complicated? This informal conversation is a chance to ask questions, learn more about available resources, and think together about how we can best support student access and learning. for Friday, October 2, from 4-5 p.m. in the Weller Room (Lib 212).

Fall Book Club: American Indigenous Democracy: A Call for Interdependence

Date: Friday, October 23, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Weller Room (Lib 212)

Description: The Indigenization & Decolonization Committee (IDC) and CLTL are teaming up to host a discussion of American Indigenous Democracy: A Call for Interdependence (2026). Through a collection of essays by contemporary Haudenosaunee leaders and scholars, the book explores Indigenous traditions of governance, particularly the Great Law of Peace, and considers what these traditions can teach us about democracy, interdependence, and the political challenges we face today. Siobhan Hart (Anthropology) and Angela Beallor-Press (MDOCS) will facilitate. to receive a copy of the book before the event. Space is limited to 20 faculty and staff on a first-come, first-served basis. Please request a copy only if you know you can commit to attending the discussion.

The AI-Resistant Classroom

Kaylin O鈥橠ell (English), Dominique Vuvan (Psychology), and Erica Wojcik (Psychology) are back to offer a four-part workshop series throughout the academic year that highlights challenges, shares effective strategies, and focuses on peer-to-peer collaborative development of AI-resistant assignments, assessments, and activities. You are not required to attend all workshops to participate.

Homework Assignments on Friday, October 30th, from 2:30-4 p.m. in TLC 201.

Many AI-resistant classroom strategies involve shifting work to class time. This workshop asks: How can we design assignments for students to do at home to support reading, writing, and thinking? In both small and large groups, we will develop AI-resistant homework assignments that build students鈥� skills, independence, and intrinsic motivation.

Allies in Learning and Teaching

Allies in Learning and Teaching (ALT) is a pilot teacher-learner liaison program. Designed with both students and faculty in mind, student liaisons collaborate with professors to create more equitable and accessible classrooms by facilitating faculty-student communication and offering insights into pedagogical practices. To request that a trained student work with you this semester, complete this brief form.

Research Salon with Ruben Castillo (Studio Art): Queer Contact Across Archives 

Ruben Castillo creates work highlighting material qualities perceived as tactile or felt, evoking moments of sensual tenderness and fantasy. His work explores both human and non-human traces left in everyday ephemera. His recent projects draw on a two-volume scrapbook housed in the Gay & Lesbian Archives of Mid America in Kansas City, Missouri. Castillo focuses on moments when individuals leave their marks through personal notations and unexpected material juxtapositions. By bringing these elements together, his work invites archival discovery and opens new possibilities for reconsidering and reimagining historical narratives associated with queer life. Thursday, November 5, from 12:45-1:45 in the Weller Room (Lib 212). by October 30.

Bio
Ruben Castillo is a visual artist and educator whose work investigates themes of intimacy, queerness, archival history, and the body through printmaking, drawing, installation, sculpture, and video. His recent imagery draws on photographs and documents, viewing the ordinary as a site of potential and connection. His work has been exhibited at Print Center New York, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, among other venues, and is held in several institutional collections. A recipient of the 2023 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award, Castillo holds an MFA from the University of Kansas and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute.

Staff AI Open Lab: Bring an Idea, Leave with a Better Approach

What are you trying to accomplish with AI? Join us in LEDS for an informal AI Open Lab where staff can experiment, troubleshoot, compare approaches, and learn from one another. Whether you鈥檙e working with BoodleBox, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot, come with a task you're exploring, a prompt you want to improve, a workflow you鈥檙e figuring out, or an experiment that simply isn鈥檛 working. This isn鈥檛 a platform training or presentation. We鈥檒l start with what people bring into the room, experiment together, and make space for bigger questions about when and how AI can be useful, when it isn鈥檛, and where human judgment matters most. Refreshments provided. Space is limited to 20 participants per session. Friday, November 13, from 1:00-2:30 in LEDS (Lib 222).

Mission: LinkedInPossible 鈥� Connecting with 撸短视频 Alumni

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Find 撸短视频 alumni who can enrich your teaching and expand professional opportunities for your students! Join Alumni Affairs for a hands-on LinkedIn workshop exploring strategies for locating alumni working in specific fields, identifying potential guest speakers, and making meaningful connections between the classroom and the professional world. Whether you鈥檙e searching for a particular industry expert or simply curious about tapping into 撸短视频鈥檚 alumni network, you鈥檒l leave with practical tools and strategies for making those connections. Bring your laptop, your questions, and your best investigative instincts鈥攖ea and cookies will fuel the mission! Friday, November 20 at 4:00 in the Weller Room (Lib 212). .

Ungrading 101

Does traditional grading bum you out? Could your grading system better reflect your students鈥� learning and growth? Are you curious about alternative grading but not sure where to begin? In this workshop, Kate Grover (American Studies) will discuss her experience implementing collaborative grading methods鈥攁lso known as 鈥渦ngrading鈥濃�攊n her undergraduate courses. After an introduction to the theory and research behind alternative grading, participants will brainstorm applications for their own classes, walking away with at least one 鈥渦ngraded鈥� assignment they can incorporate into a spring semester course. Friday, December 4 at 4:00 in the Weller Room (Lib 212).

Bio
Kate Grover is a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies who earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Her research and teaching explore the intersections of feminist theory, film and media studies, and American cultural history, with a particular focus on identity and equity in popular music. She served as a primary researcher for the Smithsonian鈥檚 鈥淧ass the Mic! Exploring the Power of Women in Music鈥� initiative, and her current book project examines women musicians鈥� activism against sexism in the American music industry from the 1960s to the present. Her scholarship has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Journal of Popular Music Studies, among other publications. Her courses explore topics ranging from rock music and feminism to queer spaces and gender in sports and popular culture.