The Inclusive Teaching Coffee Chats program is part of a series of networking events designed to facilitate discussions on inclusive teaching and active learning strategies among faculty in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES). It encourages and supports the intentional creation of inclusive learning environments and reflective teaching practices by faculty, graduate students, and staff campus-wide. This program builds upon the efforts and research from the nationwide, NSF-funded project on Inclusive STEM Teaching and is open to all audiences with an emphasis on supporting incoming and early career faculty.
Inclusive Teaching Coffee Chats aims to provide opportunities for networking among colleagues and space to share practical tips for creating inclusive learning environments and teaching strategies. Monthly topics will also focus on providing help with course redesigns and summarizing teaching impact for merit and promotion dossiers. We hope to give faculty space to enjoy a break, have a bit of fun and learn from each other collectively.
Upcoming Chats
This spring during our Coffee Chats we’ll offer a working session to support digital accessibility for instructional materials, hear from experienced graduate students in a panel discussion on mentoring undergraduate research, and celebrate the end of the year and three years of Inclusive Teaching Coffee Chats! Bring a colleague, graduate student or postdoc and share your own tips and ideas. Coffee and light snacks provided for each Coffee Chat. We hope you’ll join us.
May 7, 12:10-1:00 p.m., Wickson Hall, Room 2124
Topic: Digital Accessibility and Instructional Materials
Join us for a working session on making your instructional materials accessible. We’ll demo the Readable tool for converting pdf files and Prof. Tim Beatty from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics will share some of his tips and AI tools he is using for conversion of a variety of file types.
May 20, 3:10-4:00 p.m., Walker Hall, Room 1320
(extended discussion until 4:30 p.m.)
Topic: Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Gain tips and ideas for mentoring undergraduate research from a panel of experienced graduate students and post-doctoral scholars and alumni from several campus undergraduate REU (research experiences for undergraduate) programs. This Coffee Chat is jointly sponsored by the Addressing Climate Smart Solutions program, Nutritional Biology Graduate Admissions Pathways Program (NUTGAP), Ecology, Evolution, and Working Landscapes NSF REU (EEWL REU), and Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics (EEG) Program. We encourage graduate students and postdocs to join us for this Coffee Chat!!
June 1, 4:10-5:00 p.m., Wickson Hall, Room 2120B
(extended discussion until 5:30 pm)
Topic: Celebrate the end of the year and three years of CA&ES Inclusive Teaching Coffee Chats!
Share individual and collective teaching successes and accomplishments and the teaching moments that made you laugh or smile or that motivated you to try something new in the classroom. Last year’s event was a lot of fun and very inspiring to see all the things folks are doing to support student learning.