This Week for Faculty: 🎉 Celebrating Teaching and Learning

Celebrate teaching and learning with us!

This year marks the 10th anniversary of our Center for Teaching and Learning. We can’t thank you enough for the work you do to inspire, teach, and mentor your students. Over the past decade, it has been a privilege partnering with you, and we are excited to continue to work with you now and in the future as you design and teach innovative, world-class courses that inspire and engage your students.

In the months ahead, we invite you to join us for special events and opportunities to connect. Stay tuned for more details – we can’t wait to celebrate with you!

In the meantime, if there is anything we can do to support you or your colleagues with your teaching, please reach out to us at CTLfaculty@columbia.edu.

The 2025 Celebration of Teaching and Learning begins with an online panel and live Q&A discussion on Wednesday, April 9, 12:00 – 1:00 PM. Panelists David Helfand, Larry Jackson, and Monica Lypson will share insights from the past ten years of teaching, their innovations in pedagogy, discuss their collaborations with the CTL, and look ahead to the next decade of teaching at Columbia. The panel will be moderated by Amanda Irvin, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning.

If you assign reading in your course, these offerings are for you!

Join the conversation

Exploring AI in Teaching and Learning: AI and Reading
April 2, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, online

Do you grapple with leverage reading assignments in your course? Are you curious how you might engage students with course readings? Are you wondering how AI is impacting reading practices?

If these are questions that you are grappling with, then join your colleagues and the CTL for a discussion space in which we’ll build upon the CTL’s Learning Through Reading resource to explore the recent discussions around “the end of reading,” and how AI is impacting our students’ reading practices. 

Explore the resource

The CTL’s Learning Through Reading: Strategies to Support Students’ Reading Practices resource presents strategies for instructors facing challenges with course reading assignments, as well as activities they might leverage to increase student engagement and enhance students’ learning through reading in the age of AI.

Additional events this week

SOLER Journal Club
April 2, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, online

• Article to be discussed “Performance of ChatGPT on the test of understanding graphs in kinematics” (Polverini & Gregorcic, 2024).
• The session will be led by Dr. Marty Samuels, CTL Director of Faculty Programs and Services for Morningside Campus.
• To be added to SOLER‘s mailing list and receive invitations to upcoming events, click here. 

Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Course
April 4, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, online
Related resources: Designing an Inclusive Syllabus and Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia.

The CTL is here to help!

Connect via Zoom or over the phone
Join us for office hours via Zoom (or phone) Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm to have your teaching with instructional technology questions answered.

Schedule a consultation
Schedule an in-person or virtual consultation to discuss any teaching and learning need by emailing ctlfaculty@columbia.edu or email the CTL Learning Designer assigned to your school or department.