Scholarly Teaching Symposium featuring Dr. Jillian Kinzie as keynote speaker

The Scholarly Teaching Symposium celebrates teaching devoted to pursuing student learning and success through reflective, evidence-based teaching practices.

Co-sponsored by IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning, IUPUI Institute for Engaged Learning and LEAP Indiana, the free, virtual event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 1 and is open to all faculty and staff. Registration is required.

It provides instructors with a forum where they can share their promising teaching practices and disseminate results of scholarly teaching interventions, such as the work of the Curriculum Enhancement Grant scholars.

The event will begin with the keynote address, “New Takes on High-Impact Practices to Assure Quality and Equity,” by Jillian Kinzie, associate director of the Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement Institute, Indiana University School of Education.

The symposium will showcase work by course instructors, program directors and co-curricular experience leaders who take a scholarly approach to teaching and focus on many of the following high-impact practices:

• First-year seminars and experiences.
• Common intellectual experiences.
• Learning communities.
• Writing intensive courses.
• Collaborative assignments and projects.
• Undergraduate research.
• Diversity/global learning.
• E-portfolios.
• Service learning, community-based learning.
• Internships.
• Capstone courses and projects.
• Other applied/experiential learning components that incorporate high-impact elements (e.g., effective peer mentoring, supplemental instruction and student employment).