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It’s a piece of deep psychological acuity, carried in many religious traditions: that each of us is defined as much by who our enemies are and how we treat them as by whom and what we love. In this episode, two legendary Buddhist teachers shine a light on the lofty ideal of loving your enemies and bring it down to earth. Across a half-century conversation and friendship, Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman have investigated the mind science behind this virtue and practice. They illuminate how to transmute the very real, very consequential and consuming energy of anger and hatred — and why love in fact can be a rational and pragmatic stance towards those who vex us. This is a conversation filled with laughter and friendship and with practical wisdom on how we relate to that which makes us feel embattled from without, and from within.

Appalled at efforts to limit what they can teach about race and other sensitive subjects, faculty leaders some prominent public universities have rallied behind resolutions to reaffirm academic freedom. h/t Kathy Rim

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This is Episode 11 of “Centering Centers”, a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Mark Hofer, Director, Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation and Professor, School of Education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA. Here is a transcript of the podcast. Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below. Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation (STLI) - https://stli.wm.edu/ STLI Student Partner Program - https://stli.wm.edu/studentpartnerprogram/ Student-Produced Video on the Student Partner Program - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CecnSFNqRQs Student-Produced STLI Podcast - Teachers and Students Coming Together - https://stli.wm.edu/podcast/ Student-Produced Video on Innovative Teaching in the Pandemic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3f_ES7DDg

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Applications are being accepted for the 2022 Learning Innovation Active Learning Institute. Applicants may apply for June 6-10 or August 1-5, 2022 cohorts of the program. The Active Learning Institute ...

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This post was written by Maria Tackett, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science in early 2020 before changes in the classroom experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ...

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Via Merlin Mann and Gabe Weatherhead, I discovered this presentation by Florian Haas about the right and wrong ways to run a distributed workforce: Distributed teams are better than localized teams…

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_______________________ Throughout August, the CFT will be offering a number of workshops about various technologies and strategies to help you prepare to make the transition back to the classroom. You can find more details and full workshop descriptions of these events by visiting our August events web page. The Flipped Classroom Date: Wednesday, August 11th Time: 2:00-3:00pm Panelists: Chris Candelaria (Leadership, Policy, and Organizations), Lars Plate (Biological Sciences and Chemistry), and Heeryoon Shin (History of Art) Faculty panelists share lessons from pandemic teaching that will shape how they have students prepare for class and what they have them do in class this fall. REGISTER Teaching With Top Hat Date: Thursday, August 12th Time: 2:00-3:00pm Faculty Guest: Jesse Blocher (Owen) In this session you’ll hear about Top Hat, Vanderbilt’s student polling application. Jesse Blocher, associate professor of the practice at the Owen graduate school of management will share the ways he has used Top Hat for his classes. REGISTER Teaching for Wellbeing Date: Tuesday, August 17th Time: 1:00am-2:30pm Facilitators: Julaine Fowlin (CFT) and Stacy Simplican (Gender and Sexuality Studies) In this workshop, we will give an overview of wellbeing and the relationship to teaching and learning. Participants will apply the new

Serious questions for #HigherEd #FacDev folks running a teaching & learning center: Where do you get funding for student partners in your center (center budget, grants, etc)? What roles do student partners play in your center (responsibilities, mission critical events, etc)?