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Happy Almost Valentine's Day!
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There is much to love at the Faculty Hub and beyond this month. An adjunct conversation, a writing challenge, a writing retreat, an AI workshop on LLMs, and facilitated course assessments. Oh, and we also started a puzzle on the touchdown table if you are into that kind of thing :) There are some other great opportunities we are happy to share as well, including the River City Project, hosted by one of our campus partners, UR’s Office for Sustainability, an NCFDD webinar, a VIVA Workshop and course grants, the 2024 Innovations in Pedagogy Summit at UVA...and print UR Own V-Day cards with UR Book Arts. Be sure to scroll all the way down to see the ten things Andrew shared this month on his blog. There are some good ones!
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Print UR Own: Valentine's Day Cards
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Forget those store-bought Valentine's Day cards and show your love by printing your own! Join UR Book Arts to letterpress print your own Valentines with wood type, metal type, and linoleum blocks on our portable presses. Stop by the Boatwright Library Tower Entrance (2nd Floor) on Friday, February 9, anytime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to make and take a card. All materials will be provided; no previous printing or art experience is necessary. |
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Join us for the UR Faculty Spring Writing Challenge starting Monday, February 26. This challenge for UR faculty is a great way to jumpstart your writing and establish good writing habits. Its approach can be especially helpful for writing during the semester when finding the time to write becomes increasingly difficult. During the challenge, you can join colleagues across campus to observe a daily writing practice, commit to writing at least 30 minutes daily, record your progress, and support other writers. Need to carve out some time to write? Join the Faculty Hub for writing retreats in our space on Friday, February 23, Friday, March 29, Tuesday, April 30, and Friday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Adjunct Conversation Series
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Are you an adjunct professor in A&S, RSB, Jepson, Law, or SPCS? Join us for a conversation series designed just for you. We meet on Zoom at noon on the fourth Tuesday of each month to share ideas, get feedback from colleagues, and discover new teaching practices. Our next meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 27. We would love to see you there!
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AI Workshop:
Large Language Models (LLMs) for Research and Teaching
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Miguel Escobar Varela, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, will host a two-hour workshop on r ecent experiments on using LLMs for tasks such as information retrieval and classification at scale. This is a great opportunity to learn how LLMs can be used to advance scholarship. Lunch will be provided to those who register. Sign up here to let us know you will be joining us on Wednesday, February 28 from 12 to 2 p.m. |
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Miguel teaches courses on computational thinking for the humanities at the interdisciplinary College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS). He is the author of Theater as Data (University of Michigan Press, 2021).
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VIVA Workshop and Course Grants
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This asynchronous online workshop will introduce you to open textbooks and allow you to explore existing open textbooks available for your courses. After you complete the workshop, you will be eligible to write a review of an open textbook and receive a $200 stipend. The stipend is funded by VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium. Course enhancement grants are also available through VIVA. Awards will be made in four categories: content creation, open pedagogy, open ancillary, and large-scale adoption. The deadline is March 1.
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The River City Project: Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop is focused on creating space for faculty to ideate how to incorporate the practice and principles of sustainability into their curriculum. Participating faculty will attend a two-day workshop on May 7 and 8 hosted by UR’s Office for Sustainability. Participants will develop a shared understanding of sustainability, explore sustainability competencies and pedagogy, cultivate a justice lens, and develop or enhance their sustainability worldview. Participants will receive a stipend for attending the two-day workshop. Following the workshop in May, participants will continue to meet as a cohort for the following year. Participants will receive an additional stipend upon completion of the year-long cohort. Learn more and apply here.
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Drama-Free Collaborations
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Scholarly collaborations can be wonderful, but they can also pose challenges. This webinar discusses navigating power dynamics, working styles, and competing timelines and priorities. Please note that it is pre-recorded, and you must be logged in to the NCFDD site to view it.
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Innovations in Pedagogy Summit
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The Center for Teaching Excellence at UVA invites proposals for its 2024 Innovations in Pedagogy Summit. This year's theme is Human Learners, Human Teachers, and Dr. Cate Denial will be the keynote speaker. Proposals are due Friday, March 1. Learn more about the summit here.
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10 Things From Andrew's Blog
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The future of higher education and the state of generative AI are prime topics these days. Everywhere you turn, there is a story about the demise of higher ed and/or the latest development in text-generating AI. Questioning the value of higher education is a story that goes beyond just the new wave of generative AI technologies but these parallel narratives have me thinking about things like learning and nostalgia. Some of the links below touch on those ideas, and some don’t; either way, I hope you find something interesting…
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We are always looking for new and exciting projects and collaborations. Feel free to contact us.
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