Upcoming Events & Workshops

Spring 2025 Events

Faculty Fusion

  • When: January 15 from 9:00am to 1:00pm 
  • Where: The Foundation 
  • What: An in-person set of three interactive panels covering hot topics to help you prepare for the new semester.  

Featured "hot" topics: 

  1. Innovative Teaching, Impactful Research: Transforming Classroom Policies into Scholarship 
  2. Fostering Student Agency, Ownership, and Leadership
  3. Matching Accommodations to Reality - Strategies to Help Faculty meet Student Needs

Each session will include 30 minutes of presentation from a panel of WCU faculty experts, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A and table conversations with your peers. Coffee and lunch will be provided.

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Scholarly Productivity Panel

  • When: Thursday, January 30 from 12:30 to 1:30pm
  • Where: Zoom

Engage with a panel of productive scholars from each college, assembled by our Faculty Mentoring Committee, and learn to improve your productivity. Questions for the panelists can be submitted on the RSVP form.

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Motivating Assignments: Balancing Rigor, Compassion, and Engagement

  • When: Thursday, February 13 from 1:00 to 2:00pm
  • Where: Zoom

When educators discuss assignments, the conversation often centers on their effectiveness in assessing student learning. In the age of generative AI, the focus has shifted toward creating 'AI-proof' assignments to minimize cheating. What if we reimagined assignments as a strategy for enhancing student engagement? What would that look like?

Join us for a virtual interactive workshop led by Drs. Hodes and Mohajeri from WCU’s College of Education and Social Work. They will share their approaches to creating assignments designed to increase student engagement and motivation. Moving beyond traditional assessment frameworks, this session will explore how assignments can serve as catalysts for enhancing student motivation, creativity, and authentic learning.

Participants will explore topics such as:

  • Designing assignments that promote academic integrity while building student confidence and capability. 
  • Strategies for shifting student focus from grade achievement to mastery learning. 
  • Inclusive and equitable assignment practices that leverage diverse student strengths and experiences and provide multiple means for student engagement and expression. 
  • Flexible assessment strategies that maintain academic rigor. 
  • Setting and communicating expectations for acceptable AI use for course assignments
  • Implementing innovative assignment strategies without increasing instructor workload.

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Promotion Panel

  • When: Thursday, February 20 from 12:30 to 1:30pm
  • Where: Zoom

Come talk with a panel of professors, assembled by our Faculty Mentoring Committee, who have recently been through the promotion process! All levels of promotion will be addressed. Questions for the panelists can be submitted on the RSVP form.

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