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The end of semester is frighteningly (or tantalizingly) close. This semester all of us, including students, have felt our attention pulled in many directions. Students with missing work might still be able to close the gap if you reach out to them with an invitation to finish up, either now or with an Incomplete Contract.

Final grades and missing student work: what to do?, from ScienceBlogs

When You Communicate With Students, Tone Matters, from the Chronicle

Hub staff have slots for 15 or 30 min meetings if you want to think through what to do about late work or incompletes

UM-Dearborn’s Incomplete Contract

By now you've heard of the new Title II regulations that take effect in April 2026. Making classes accessible is good teaching and welcomes all of our students into the learning process. For some students, non-accessible courses are barriers that prevent them from learning. Check out one or more of these short videos if you would like to see why accessible courses matter: 

Dhruv, older adult student who is deaf (3 min)

Stefan, student with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia (3 min)

Ade, reporter with limited use of his arms (1min 47 sec)

You asked for support and here are three opportunities:

1) Complete the self-pace Digital Accessibility Course (enroll with this join link).  A $200 completion incentive will be provided to the first 250 instructors (tenure track faculty or lecturers) who complete the full course.

2) You don't have to do this on your own. Hire a former student to do some of the work. There are 250 small grants so that instructors (tenure track faculty or lecturers) can hire a student in their discipline to assist with accessibility work. Please complete the grant application form if you are interested.  

3) Human-generated captions are available for videos with highly inaccurate machine-generated captions that are stored in Kaltura/MiVideo. Please complete the human-generated caption request form if you are interested.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the ADA Title II regulations on digital accessibility, please email umdearborn-de-accessibility@umich.edu.

An invitation from Jessica Riviere and Joan Remski

We know you are working hard in the classroom, putting together amazingly thoughtful material and fostering student engagement. Wouldn’t it be great to share your insights at a conference or in a publication? 

On March 12, we hosted a workshop designed to encourage faculty to take the plunge and sign up for an upcoming Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) conference, including a chance for five participants to receive $100 credit toward your conference registration fee for abstracts accepted at either the Lilly Conference in Traverse City (in person Oct 8-10 2025) and the SoTL Summit (virtual, September 18-19 2025). Both conferences make space for projects “in process” - you don’t have to have completed everything in order to discuss your ideas with others! Attendees at the April session are also eligible for one of the limited number of registration credits described above.

We are hosting a “power hour” write-together session on Thursday April 10th from 11am to 12pm on zoom. Attendance at the first workshop isn’t mandatory! We’ll be using the time to complete sections of the call for proposals for a poster at the Lilly Conference. Bring what you’ve got and plan on spending some time continuing to write, but also to have time to workshop your ideas and questions. 

Feel free to use this opportunity to practice thinking about what you might want to do in the future, even if a conference next Fall seems out of reach! We’d love to see you there. 

Add the event to your calendar using this link! 

We are happy to meet with you for any teaching concerns, large or small, in any modality, whether it's a one-off meeting or longer-term planning. For issues arising in your classes, PBL, GenAI, or anything else, we're here to help!

Questions or comments about this Hub Cap? Reach out to Carla Vecchiola, cvecchio@umich.edu

While the HubCap is designed with our faculty as the primary audience, others (campus leaders, directors, student services staff) may also find valuable insights within. Feel free to forward this newsletter on if you know someone who could benefit from this information.

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