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Fall 2024 Professional Development

Upcoming ACA Faculty Professional Development Opportunities

Check out the Spring 2025 offerings; this semester, the ACCE grant will focus intentionally on teaching -- a central tenet and core component of the ACA faculty experience. 

Institutional Policy & Process Audit Participants

 

 

Fostering Faculty Belonging: Building Inclusive Communities in Higher Education

  • January 14, 2025 | 1pm ET | webinar | Watch the recording
  • Presented by Nicholas D. Hartlep, Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair and Chair of the Education Studies Department (Berea College)

Understanding and Supporting Neurodivergent Students

  • February 12, 2025 | 2pm ET | webinar | Watch the recording
  • Presented by La-Juan Bradford, Director of Academic Support and Professor of Education (Lee University)

New Approaches to Teaching Evaluation: Evaluation Strategies that Enhance Teaching Quality

  • March 4, 2025 | 1pm ET | webinar | Watch the recording
  • Presented by Ann E. Austin, University Distinguished Professor (Michigan State University)

Navigating Challenging Classroom Conversations

  • April 3, 2025 | 2pm ET | webinar | Register here
  • Presented by Heather McMahon, Assistant Dean for Academic Success and Professor of Theatre, and Kathie Shiba, Assistant Dean for Institutional Equity and Professor of Psychology (both of Maryville College)

Past Professional Development Sessions

Past Professional Development Sessions

It's not too late to benefit from the Fall 2024 professional development series! These sessions were designed for professional development at all faculty levels.

 

 

 

Pedagogy as A Two-Way Street

  • September 11, 2024 | 4pm EST | webinar | View the recording
  • Presented by Carey Ruiz, ACCE Co-PI and Associate Professor of Sociology (Campbellsville University)

Improving Inclusive Teaching with Neuroscience

  • October 18, 2024 | 3pm EST | webinar | View the recording
  • Presented by Chris Cain, Professor of Education & Director Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (Mars Hill University), and Ben Van Dyke, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Faculty Director of the First-Year Experience (Young Harris College)

Breathing is a Brain Massage: Tools for Compassionate Cognition

  • November 7, 2024 | 3pm EST | webinar | View the recording
  • Presented by Jonna Kwiatkowski, Professor of Psychology (Mars Hill University)

ACCE Events

2024 Institutional Policy & Process Audit Activity