BUILDING EMPATHY IN THE COLLEGE
Expanding on the fall semester advising theme, our programming explores how faculty, students, coaches, administrators, and staff can work together to envision and build a more empathetic Trinity community. These perspectives will include a historical interpretation of how the ideals of a college education have developed in recent decades, discussion of the value and challenges of creating intellectual discomfort, and expert insights on the difficulties students face and how faculty can be supportive while remaining resilient.
College as Public Good? Thinking Beyond Competition in American Higher Education
Date: Thursday, February 2, Common Hour, Dangremond Family Commons
Presented by: Isaac Kamola, Assistant Professor of Political Science, with response by Kathleen Kete, Borden W. Painter, Jr. ’58, H’95 Professor of European History
Today it is all too common to imagine colleges and universities, in the United States and around the world, as firms competing against one another for rankings, for grant money, for prestigious faculty and the best students, for brand recognition, and for tuition revenue. However, this vision of the university as a firm struggling for survival within a 
highly competitive higher education market is actually a relatively recent phenomenon. This talk examines the history of how competition became the horizon for imagining the world of higher education and argues that understanding this history makes it possible to reimagine our own institution in new and creative ways.
Reflection and Resilience: How to Maintain Positive Relationships with Students
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 4:15–5:45 p.m., Seabury 215
A Workshop with Susan Averna, Ph.D., School Mental Health Consultant
Faculty-student relationships are pivotal for student academic success and mental well-being. The students who may need the most support are often the ones most difficult to 
teach and advise. In this workshop, we will discuss the dynamics of challenging relationships. Using reflective exercises, we will practice constructive ways of being with students. A goal is to help us recognize how self-compassion can reduce burnout and improve relationships between faculty and students.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Back by popular demand, Brown Bag Lunches address timely topics of faculty interest (bring your lunch; coffee and dessert will be served). Contact Sean or Dina if you have a topic of interest.
Academic Accommodations: Everything Faculty Need to Know
Lori Clapis Powerpoint Presentation on 3-21-17
Date: Tuesday, March 21, Common Hour, Alumni Lounge
Lori Clapis, Coordinator of Academic Resources
Recognizing and Helping Students in Distress: A Guide for Faculty to Understand, Recognize, and Assist Students
Date: Tuesday, March 28, Common Hour, Mather Hall, Wean Terrace, Room B
Randy Lee, Director of the Counseling Center and Associate Professor of Psychology
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
Faculty Development Workshop with the Community Learning Initiative: Pedagogies of the Real World
Date: Friday, March 24, 10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 1823 Room
What Do You Acquire by Creating Intellectual Discomfort, and What Do You Lose? Co-Sponsored with TIIS
Date: Tuesday, April 4, Common Hour, Dangremond Family Commons
Trinity faculty will discuss intellectual discomfort as a mode of inquiry and a learning experience that can present expected and unexpected challenges. In the classroom, out of the classroom, or on the field and the court, faculty challenge students with what is difficult and perhaps unfamiliar. What are constructive ways to create discomfort?
Information + Transformation: Exploring Research in the Context of a Liberal Arts Education
Date: Wednesday May 17, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., 1823 Room
With the co-sponsorship of ITEC and the Center for Teaching and Learning, Information Services’s Research Education Program and Center for Educational Technology will offer a daylong workshop on, and show-and-tell of, workflows and research strategies to foster student engagement, scholarship, collaboration, critical reading and writing skills, and more.
2016-17
CTL FELLOW FINAL PRESENTATIONS
The CTL Fellows program supports full-time faculty undertaking a project of innovation in their teaching. The Fellows sustain a wide-ranging conversation about pedagogy, meeting once a month to discuss their projects.
They will present the results of their yearlong teaching projects to the Trinity community during three Common Hours: April 11, April 13, and April 18.
2016-17 Fellows
Ian Adelstein, “Flipping the Classroom in ‘Math 332: Analysis II’ ”
Tanetta Andersson, “Campus Sexual Assault: Nesting Data, Theory, and Praxis Modules within Sociology Courses”
Lisa-Anne Foster, “From Box-Checking to Teaching: Developing Academic Advising Materials Designed to Help Students Learn”
Dan Lloyd, “Strategies for Effective Student-Faculty Research Collaborations”
Kevin MacDermott, “Applied Improvisation: Collaborative Creativity in the Classroom”
Seth Markle, “Archiving the Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival: Theory and Praxis”
Dan Mrozowski, “The Art of Revision”
Nichole Szembrot, “Controversy in the Classroom: A Collaborative Approach”
Maurice Wade, “Deep Reading”