These programs aim not only to improve teaching, but also to encourage collegiality and the intellectual growth of faculty and graduate students as teachers both within and between departments and colleges. This spring the Center For Teaching invites you to attend these presentations designed to offer you useful insights and practical strategies for gaining the most productive, and balanced, use of your writing and teaching development efforts. Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst The Center For Teaching and the Writing Program invite you to a one day retreat to jump start your summer writing endeavors. This retreat is designed to help you work on your writing projects, at your own pace throughout the day.
Participants can choose their own mix of activities.
There will be opportunities to share ideas about writing with colleagues, trade drafts or work on writing alone. We invite you to take advantage of a day where you can t be reached by home or office demands. Peter Elbow will speak briefly about writing and suggest options for sharing and responding to each other s work during and beyond this workshop. For online registration, click here . This annual spring dinner provides an occasion at which members of the University community across disciplines, departments, and ranks come together to celebrate the importance of teaching.