Center for Teaching Excellence

Workshops and Events

Throughout each semester, the CTE sponsors workshops, speakers, and brown-bag discussions related to different aspects of teaching and learning. Upcoming events: 

Cohorted Pedagogies: Teaching Across Courses, Disciplines, and Communities

Sep 23, 2026 | 01:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)

What happens when students experience multiple courses as part of a shared intellectual community? This brown bag will explore cohorted pedagogies, including interdisciplinary teaching, linked courses, shared learning experiences, and living-learning communities. We’ll consider the potential benefits and challenges of cohorting students and share examples of how faculty are experimenting with these approaches at Xavier.

What is Interprofessional Education (IPE)?          

Sep 24, 2026 | 01:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)

Join us for a brown-bag session exploring interprofessional education (IPE) and its role in Xavier Health, an integrated health initiative connecting more than 25 health programs. We’ll explore the origins and evolution of IPE and discuss what it means in practice—and why IPE is more than simulation or simply bringing learners from different professions into the same space.

CTE Fall Keynote Speaker Cate Denial “A Pedagogy of Kindness”

Oct 05, 2026 | 03:00 PM | Kennedy Auditorium

 

Teaching with Wikipedia (Brown bag lunch)

Oct 07, 2026 | 12:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)           

Dr. Stephen Yandell (English) and Dr. Amy Whipple (History) will introduce faculty to the Teach with Wikipedia assignment they are trying in their CORE 100 and HIST 199 this semester. If you're looking for a new way to engage students in research and writing, this might be the answer!

Trauma-Informed Teaching: Creating Classrooms for Learning, Risk, and Resilience

Oct 29, 2026 | 12:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)

What does it mean to teach with an awareness of trauma while maintaining academic rigor and high expectations? This brown bag will explore practical approaches to creating classrooms that foster safety, agency, connection, and resilience. We’ll consider how trauma-informed principles might shape course design, classroom practices, assignments, assessment, and policies, and what these approaches can offer all students.

Magnifica Humanitas: Human Flourishing in the Age of Technology   

Nov 05, 2026 | 12:00 PM | Stinson Faculty Lounge (CLC 317)

Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas invites us to consider what it means to be human in a rapidly changing technological and cultural landscape. This brown bag will explore the encyclical’s vision of human dignity, flourishing, technology, and the common good, with particular attention to questions it raises for teaching and learning in Catholic higher education.