Events
Workshop Requests
Does your department want to try something new? Are you interested in learning about innovative course design and instructional technology? Are many of you struggling with an issue that you'd like to work on with the help of a designer? Would you like guidance workshopping assignments with colleagues from your own area and similar disciplines? The Center for Teaching and Learning is taking requests! With enough warning, we're happy to lead a discussion on just about anything teaching related. Our only requirement is that you have at least 5 colleagues who are willing to join you for your workshop. Fill out our Workshop Request Form and someone will be with you to plan soon.
Brightspace Workshops
CTL offers a variety of Brightspace workshops. These in-person and virtual, hands-on workshops are designed so support effective Brightspace usage and include discussions of Brightspace basics, innovative teaching method in Brightspace, Brightspace for assessment and data collection, etc. Every workshop includes hands-on activities that support immediate incorporation of the idea being demonstrated.
Spring 2026: Gradebook Bootcamp
Book Clubs
If you love book clubs like we do, you might like joining the CTL Book Club. We will read a new book related to teaching and learning in higher ed every semester. The CTL provides a copy of the book to every participant. You just have to read and share your ideas. Sign up to join one of our book clubs.
Fall 2025
Small Teaching: Every Day Lessons from the Science of Learning
Small Teaching is one of our favorite books because Lang focuses on small, practical changes instructors can incorporate immediately that lead to significant improvements in student learning. Lang's book provides carefully researched teaching strategies from a wide-variety of disciplines with personal anecdotes from his own classes to present a thoughtful argument for the importance of helping students build lasting knowledge as well as skills.
Spring 2026
Reach Everyone Teach Everyone: Universal Design in Higher Education
Keeping our Title II work in mind, we'll be reading Reach Everyone Teach Everyone by Thomas Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling. This book offers practical guidance for making college teaching more inclusive and accessible. Tobin and Behling introduce Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies that help instructors create flexible learning environments benefiting all students—not just those with accommodations.
Development Days
Join us for one of our faculty development days. The CTL hosts a variety of gatherings through out the year. These sessions are designed to help faculty share effective teaching practices and learn from one another. Throughout the year, the CTL will be hosting several development days.
New Faculty Development Day
The Center for Teaching and Learning will be hosting New Faculty Orientation on Monday, August 18th from 8:00-4:00. We will be contacting New Faculty over the summer to make sure they have what they need to start the semester. If you have questions about new faculty orientation, email Jennifer Hall at jennifer.hall02@cortland.edu
Adjunct Development Day
This virtual event is designed to support our adjunct community. New, interactive workshops, will be offered each hour and adjuncts are encouraged to bring their questions and ideas to share with everyone. We know that many of our adjuncts are very experienced teachers, so these sessions are designed to support sharing of information across disciplines and give adjuncts the space to build community. Learn more and register for the 2025 Adjunct Development Day held on Friday, August 15th from 9-4 in Teams.
Teaching and Learning Conference 2026
As with years past, this year's conference seeks to celebrate innovative and effective teaching practices and provide space for us to learn from one another. We are happy to invite everyone to participate with any topic, but our primary areas of focus this year will be:
- AI in Teaching and Learning: Innovative Teaching Strategies that Support AI Literacy
- Accessibility: Title II, UDL, and Creating a Welcoming Space
- Wellness and Joy: Finding Balance and Encouraging Creativity and Play in the Classroom
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Discussions of Ongoing SoTL Projects
- High Impact Practice: Undergraduate Research, Internships, Writing Intensive Courses, Collaborative Work, and Community-Based Learning
- Online Teaching Excellence: Online Engagement Strategies, Innovative Course Structure, New Course Design
This year, we will have three types of presentations to choose from:
- 20-minute presentation (Individual or Group)
- 45-Minute Interactive Presentation (Individual or Group)
- 10-minute Lighting Round Presentation of a Quick Teaching Strategy.
Please submit your proposals by Friday, March 27th. If you have any questions or need any other assistance, please email Jennifer Hall, Senior Director Center for Teaching and Learning, at jennnifer.hall02@cortland.edu
2026 Teaching & Learning Conference: Exploring Possibilities – Fill out form