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Welcome to a new academic year! The CTE is at the ready to support all of your teaching and learning needs. In this issue of the News we feature upcoming programs, timely resources, and other targeted supports to help you start the fall semester strong. 

Upcoming Seminars and Events

Together, we will explore how to create space for multiple (opposing) perspectives while staying grounded in your course goals and disciplinary expertise. You will leave with strategies, examples, and campus connections that can help you navigate these conversations with confidence and care.

Wednesday, September 3
9:45 am - 11:15 am
In-person only, in 320 Laws Hall

How can we create learning environments that move beyond technical content to foster connection, confidence, and critical thinking? In this seminar, 2025 E. Phillips Knox Distinguished Teaching Award winner Dr. Hakam Alomari (Computer Science and Software Engineering) reflects on his journey from teaching code to cultivating purpose-driven, evidence-based, relevant, innovative, student-centered learning in software engineering. Gain practical strategies and renewed inspiration to design adaptable, inclusive, and impactful classrooms that prepare students not just to code, but to thrive.

Tuesday, September 16
10:00 am - 11:30 pm
In-person only, in 320 Laws Hall

Are you interested in improving your teaching using ChatGPT? This workshop is for instructors who want to increase student engagement. Learn how to center students in discipline-specific, in-class, concept-building/application activities by (1) writing effective ChatGPT prompts; (2) engaging in productive ChatGPT conversations; and (3) replacing teacher-centered lectures with student-centered learning experiences.

Thursday, September 25
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
In-person only, in 320 Laws Hall

Drawing on a semester-long study of upper-division history students, this workshop examines how structured AI integration can foster digital literacy in humanities courses. Participants will (1) explore how students shifted from skepticism or overreliance to thoughtful, task-specific engagement with AI and (2) develop criteria for potential AI integrations in their courses. Lunch will be served.

The registration deadline is noon on October 3, 2025. 

Tuesday, October 7
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
In-person only, in 320 Laws Hall

This self-paced, asynchronous online, interactive, 5-7 hour course has been tested by the CTE, featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, and was awarded the 2024 Outstanding Program: Noncredit Award by the UCPEA. The scholarship deadline is September 15. 

Do not take any registration steps while exploring the course at Auburn’s website. Instead, use the scholarship link to apply. 

News and Information

The purpose of CTE-IGNITE (Incorporating Generative AI With Novel Ideas for Teaching Excellence) grants is to encourage scholarly teaching around the opportunities and challenges presented by Generative AI. There are 3 levels of grants available. 

Submit a CTE major teaching project grant proposal (up to $3,000). These grants encourage curricular and pedagogical innovations that result in more engaged and improved student learning. Innovations may be at the course, department, division, and/or university levels. 

This award was established by Miami alumnus E. Phillips Knox, a 1968 graduate, to recognize creative, innovative, and engaging teaching methods at the undergraduate level. 

The schedule for the 44th Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching (November 20-22 at Armstrong Student Center) is now available! Take a few moments to review the exciting program of sessions on evidence-based teaching and learning by teacher-scholars from Miami and across the U.S. Conference registration is also open. Registration fees for Miami faculty, graduate students, and staff are subsidized by the CTE (or free—see below!).

We are thrilled to offer over 100 registration scholarships (excluding meals and preconference workshops) to Miami instructors, graduate students, and staff. Complete this short scholarship application to be considered. Please wait to register until you receive word on your application from LillyCon@MiamiOH.edu.

We offer two types of consultations at the CTE. Both are confidential.

Check out this new resource from the Provost’s Office, and learn how AI can become your high-powered teaching assistant for content creation, content enhancement, and assessment in this Faculty Focus article.

Opportunities From Our Partners

This competitive program has awarded over $8 million since 2009 to fund projects that have helped students in and out of the classroom through the use of technology. The deadline to submit proposals for the 2025-26 awards is midnight on September 28, 2025.

Center for Teaching Excellence

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