Upcoming Speakers

Fall 2025 Speaker: Chavella T. Pittman
Seminar and Workshop on Friday, October 17
Chavella T. Pittman, PhD is a Professor of Sociology and the Founder of Effective & Efficient Faculty, a faculty development company that provides faculty success services. She has a love/hate relationship with running, is a beer aficionado, has a cured black thumb, loves to learn, and believes joy is non-negotiable. Her forthcoming book Empowered is a guide to help women faculty of color (and faculty in general) teach excellently and thrive. Her expertise includes methods & statistics, higher education, and interpersonal interactions and can be found in peer-reviewed journals, scholarly books, and broader publications (e.g. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed).
SEMINAR
Teaching Overwhelm: Why It Matters and What Can Be Done About It
Learn about teaching overwhelm, what contributes to it, why it matters, and how changes to teaching can improve instructor wellness.
- October 17, 2025
- 10:00 AM–11:30 AM
- TBD
WORKSHOP
Reducing Teaching Overwhelm and Increasing Teaching Joy
Examine ways to reduce teaching overwhelm and get ideas for how to teach well, while still having time/energy/focus for the other important things in your life.
- October 17, 2025
- 2:00 PM–3:30 PM
- TBD
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Check out our past workshops.