Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

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CETL goes to POD 2025

Reports from the 50th annual POD Network conference in San Diego

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Recap: Real Talk about Teaching, with guest speaker Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus

On Wednesday, October 22, CETL was thrilled to welcome our colleague Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus to campus. Dr. Neuhaus is Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) and Professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University. We at CETL know her best for her refreshingly honest books

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Recap: Understanding Mental Health from a Learning Perspective

By Brian Wesley Harrington, Graduate Teaching Fellow On October 15, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning hosted a powerful and timely workshop led by Dr. Liz Norell titled “Understanding Mental Health from a Learning Perspective.” The session explored how mental health challenges shape the learning environment and offered

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Recap: When and Why Do Students Read for Class?

One possible hurdle preventing students from completing course reading assignments is the gap between the reading skills of students and those of their instructors.

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Call for guest blog contributors

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Meet the 2025-2026 Graduate Teaching Fellows

We're excited to introduce our three graduate teaching fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year: Amitesh Singh, Brian Wesley Harrington, and Sarah Ligon.

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What we read this summer

The CETL Team includes avid readers. In this post, we share what we read this summer.

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Recap: Welcome week workshops

Earlier this week, the CETL team offered a variety of workshops to help instructors prepare for the semester ahead. Below, we offer a few key takeaways from these workshops. As always, we invite you to review our schedule of upcoming workshops, peruse our blog for recaps on previous events, and

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Announcing CETL’s Fall 2025 Lineup

Teaching large courses, navigating generative AI, real talk about teaching, and more

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Welcome week preview

As we gear up for the start of the fall 2025 semester, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning team will offer a variety of programs to help instructors start strong in the weeks ahead.

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CETL Honors Graduate Student Teachers

Meet the winners of the 2024-2025 Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards

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Recap: Understanding and Supporting Executive Function

Executive functioning skills are critical to memory, attention, organizing, and planning—among many other tasks important to learning and teaching. In a recent workshop, CETL explored how instructors

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