Upcoming Events
Fall 2025 Semester
Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Undergraduate and Graduate Classes
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025
Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
In community psychology, we focus on action research and are dedicated to transforming our pedagogy to emphasize empowerment and nonhierarchical relationships. Yet, truly grasping a community psychology perspective is difficult in traditional classroom settings. Rooted in social justice and community involvement, participatory action research (PAR) empowers individuals in the community to be active contributors to the research and formulations of actions to be taken. This presentation will share examples of PAR as a teaching approach using Photovoice methodology in an undergraduate class and a linked undergraduate-graduate design, as well as a Needs Assessment methodology in a graduate class.
Personal Knowledge Management 101
Date: Friday, October 24th, 2025
Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
By the end of this workshop, you will have reflected and developed new strategies related to how you collect, store, and organize analog and digital information for personal and professional purposes. If you take notes without clear purpose or intention for how they will be used in the future, this workshop is for you. “Notes” can be scratch notes, lesson plans, article summary notes, research memos, draft manuscripts, and much more. They can also be hand-written or typed, local or cloud-based. The goal of this workshop is to center “future you” and put your note taking in alignment with how those notes will be beneficial for future classes, meetings, research efforts, and personal obligations.
Experiential Learning: May Our Eclipse Ballooning Experience Help Lift Your Own Idea Off The Ground
Date: Friday, October 10th, 2025
Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
In this workshop, we would like to share our experience in building a unique and engaging experiential learning (EL) experience for the campus community through a variety of events during the solar eclipse series in Academic Year 2023-24 (October 2023 annular and April 2024 total eclipses). We will share our strategies to develop course modules and educational moments with the backdrop of these two much celebrated celestial events, as well as the asscoiated events. Although the next total eclipse visible from Continental US will be in 2045, we would like to work with you to brainstorm your own bright ideas to build an EL project around a special event of your interests. We hope this workshop can lift your next EL effort off the ground!
Upcoming Events
Information coming soon.
Join the CTE office hours at the beginning of Fall 2025 to discuss any teaching-related
questions you might have in terms of course design, assessments, active-learning, and teaching
resources. Days/times with corresponding zoom links can be found in the flyer.
