Leave with practical facilitation tools and renewed confidence in fostering classrooms grounded in shared responsibility, emancipatory agency, and transformative learning.
Join Rachel Spraker for an overview of the new Community Excellence Faculty Fellowship, a cohort-based program supporting community‑engaged research and teaching at UVA. The session will outline eligibility, proposal expectations, cohort activities, timelines, and include time for Q&A and project discussion.
Leave with practical facilitation tools and renewed confidence in fostering classrooms grounded in shared responsibility, emancipatory agency, and transformative learning.
The UVA Student Council Public Service Advisory Board will introduce their ethical guidebook for community engagement and discuss how faculty and staff can apply its principles in courses and partnerships.
Explore examples of well-designed Canvas courses from UVA faculty across Grounds, highlighting practical approaches to transparency, belonging, and accessibility.
This workshop helps faculty explore how reading works in their disciplines and identify challenges students face. Through reflection and hands‑on design, participants will clarify their goals for students’ reading and create an activity or assignment to support those goals. The session offers a starting point for intentionally integrating reading pedagogy into their teaching.