Center for Teaching Excellence
Spring Symposium 2025
Join CTE for a day of professional development and community!
Spring Symposium includes a Keynote Presentation, Awards Ceremony, Instructional Fair Poster session, and Breakout Sessions.
Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Strategies for Connection and Vitality
By Keynote Speaker Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Working and teaching in higher education can be challenging, especially in these uncertain
times. How do we develop habits that help us survive and thrive in today's environment?
In this interactive workshop, we'll explore exactly what burnout is and how it might
be impacting our work and teaching. Then we'll focus on how we can use the science
of connection and the framework of faculty vitality to create spaces where faculty,
and students, can flourish.
Breakfast, coffee, and lunch will be served! Attendees will earn 10 CTE Knights Points
toward next year's Certificates.
When: Tuesday, May 13, 2025; 8:30-2:00
Where: Knight Campus Room 4080
Deadline: Please register by Sunday, April 27
Resources
Check out all the new books that CTE has added to the library collection in the past two years.
Rachel's Recommended Reading
"Geeky Pedagogy: a guide for intellectuals, introverts, and nerds who want to be effective teachers" by Jessamyn Neuhaus
From the publisher: "Geeky Pedagogy is a funny, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic, highly readable guide to
the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher."
From Rachel: This accessable and engaging read won me over almost immediately by acknowledging that what works in one teaching context will not work in every teaching context. Neuhaus offers a great mix of idealism and excitement about teaching with a healthy dose of the realities of complex lives and the differing effects of faculty characteristics on how classes work.
Available as an ebook from the CCRI Library here.
Activate your CCRI ID as a Library Card here.
Knights Points
Don't forget, you can fill out an Implementation Plan if you want to use anything you learn from any professional development in your classes for 4 CTE Knights points. Close the gap to a CTE Knights Certificate before Spring Symposium!
Disaggregated Data Requests
In February 2022, I (Rachel) was able to see my course data for General Psychology (a course I have taught many times here at CCRI) disaggregated by race and ethnicity. The results were surprising and difficult for me to face. Despite that, I’m very glad that I did it, and I’m looking forward to trying some new strategies in my courses to try to close the equity gaps I found.
If you’d like to check out your own course data, request a meeting here to get started.
This is a confidential process and is for your professional development only. Results are not shared with chairs, deans, or the VPAA.
The Center for Teaching Excellence is a collaborative, faculty-led community that supports continuous development and champions high-impact, equitable teaching and learning practices for our diverse student body.
We Listen and Learn
We Respond and Lead
We Recognize and Reward