Upcoming Events
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching and Learning (Goldfarb Mezzanine)
Faculty in their first three years at Brandeis are warmly invited to join their peers and the CTL Director for an hour of unstructured conversation, celebration, and commiseration about the successes and challenges that everyone experiences as they make their way in a new career phase and/or at a new institution. Members of the learning community are encouraged to suggest topics, shared readings, and special guests to the rest of the group, and the CTL will do its best to bring those resources to the table. You are welcome to bring your own lunch; coffee and light refreshments will be available. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Presenter: Lee Bitsóí and Adam Beaver
Location: Vershbow classroom, Goldfarb Mezzanine
What is mentoring? How is it similar to advising, supervising, or coaching? How is it different? What does it look like to provide it (and receive it) with grace and understanding—especially across cultures?
As Brandeis faculty, we participate in a various mentoring relationships or other relational situations where mentoring could occur. Whether you are a mentor to junior colleagues, postdocs, graduate or undergraduate students, or a mentee in your current role, you have developed a number of intuitions from your experiences, about what works, what doesn’t work, and the kind of mentor and mentee you would like to be. What you may not have had is an opportunity to connect with peers and reflect on your experiences together in ways that allow you to move beyond your intuitions to explore shared frameworks and theories about effective and inspirational mentoring. <br />
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Accordingly, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Access and Excellence are offering this interactive, 75-minute workshop designed to guide our faculty to become more intentional about how to establish trust, set expectations, as well as give and receive feedback in mentoring relationships.
This offering of the workshop is designed for faculty in the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology. Additional offerings for faculty in Brandeis' other schools are scheduled for September and October.
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching and Learning (Goldfarb Mezzanine)
Faculty in their first three years at Brandeis are warmly invited to join their peers and the CTL Director for an hour of unstructured conversation, celebration, and commiseration about the successes and challenges that everyone experiences as they make their way in a new career phase and/or at a new institution. Members of the learning community are encouraged to suggest topics, shared readings, and special guests to the rest of the group, and the CTL will do its best to bring those resources to the table. You are welcome to bring your own lunch; coffee and light refreshments will be available. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Presenter: Greg Kestin
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Join Harvard faculty member Greg Kestin for an illuminating exploration of two possible trajectories for higher education's reckoning with artificial intelligence, and an opportunity to think about what you can do to make sure that Brandeis is putting its students on the right path to AI literacy. Enthusiasts and AI skeptics alike will find food for thought in this wide-ranging discussion about the future of education.
Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching and Learning (Goldfarb Mezzanine)
Faculty in their first three years at Brandeis are warmly invited to join their peers and the CTL Director for an hour of unstructured conversation, celebration, and commiseration about the successes and challenges that everyone experiences as they make their way in a new career phase and/or at a new institution. Members of the learning community are encouraged to suggest topics, shared readings, and special guests to the rest of the group, and the CTL will do its best to bring those resources to the table. You are welcome to bring your own lunch; coffee and light refreshments will be available. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Friday, November 28, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Presenter: Lee Bitsóí and Adam Beaver
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
What is mentoring? How is it similar to advising, supervising, or coaching? How is it different? What does it look like to provide it (and receive it) with grace and understanding—especially across cultures?
As Brandeis faculty, we participate in a various mentoring relationships or other relational situations where mentoring could occur. Whether you are a mentor to junior colleagues, postdocs, graduate or undergraduate students, or a mentee in your current role, you have developed a number of intuitions from your experiences, about what works, what doesn’t work, and the kind of mentor and mentee you would like to be. What you may not have had is an opportunity to connect with peers and reflect on your experiences together in ways that allow you to move beyond your intuitions to explore shared frameworks and theories about effective and inspirational mentoring. <br />
<br />
Accordingly, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Access and Excellence are offering this interactive, 75-minute workshop designed to guide our faculty to become more intentional about how to establish trust, set expectations, as well as give and receive feedback in mentoring relationships.
This offering of the workshop is designed for faculty in the School of Business and Economics. Additional offerings for faculty in Brandeis' other schools are scheduled for September-November.
Date: Friday, December 5, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching and Learning (Goldfarb Mezzanine)
Faculty in their first three years at Brandeis are warmly invited to join their peers and the CTL Director for an hour of unstructured conversation, celebration, and commiseration about the successes and challenges that everyone experiences as they make their way in a new career phase and/or at a new institution. Members of the learning community are encouraged to suggest topics, shared readings, and special guests to the rest of the group, and the CTL will do its best to bring those resources to the table. You are welcome to bring your own lunch; coffee and light refreshments will be available. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Friday, December 19, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Center for Teaching and Learning (Goldfarb Mezzanine)
Faculty in their first three years at Brandeis are warmly invited to join their peers and the CTL Director for an hour of unstructured conversation, celebration, and commiseration about the successes and challenges that everyone experiences as they make their way in a new career phase and/or at a new institution. Members of the learning community are encouraged to suggest topics, shared readings, and special guests to the rest of the group, and the CTL will do its best to bring those resources to the table. You are welcome to bring your own lunch; coffee and light refreshments will be available. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!