The CTE provides professional development workshops for LMU faculty to continue our life-long learning. We offer a formative and constructive space for faculty, led by faculty. Events and workshops are open to all LMU faculty. Our goal is to build community, while we support and inspire each other. Please note that faculty presenters volunteer to share their expertise with our community.
Some events are earmarked for faculty only (e.g., no students & no staff). This is not intended to exclude members of our community, but rather to provide space where faculty can openly discuss the challenges we face with our teaching. Some events are open to all of our LMU community. Please read the description of the events and RSVP! If you forget to RSVP, you’re still most welcome to attend the event, but please note that food will be available based on RSVP numbers.
If you are an office on campus or a faculty member interested in offering an event through the CTE, please email teachers@lmu.edu to start the process of requesting an event. We look forward to seeing you at the CTE!
Events & Workshops
Spring 2024
Immersive Technology Open House: Tues. 4/9 from 10am-12pm; Seaver 305
Information Technology Services invites faculty, staff, and students to the Immersive Learning Space to experience firsthand the latest developments in immersive technology. Come try modern spatial computing, stereoscopic video, AR glasses, and more. Faculty can speak with Instructional technologists about how devices and applications can be used for teaching and learning.
Register here.
Pedagogy & Mission: Tues. 4/9 from 12-2pm, UHall 3030
Critical, antiracist, decolonial, feminist, access...and Ignatian? We all come to our classrooms with teaching strategies informed by our various disciplines and different pedagogical frameworks. For many of us, justice-oriented pedagogies have transformed our teaching. Where and how can we anchor those pedagogical approaches in the mission of LMU as a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount institution and in Ignatian pedagogy? How can Ignatian pedagogy empower us as teachers to embrace and deploy the tools of critical, antiracist, decolonial, feminist, and access pedagogies? Join us for a conversation – facilitated by 2024 Faculty Fellow in Mission and Ministry, Elizabeth Drummond (HIST) – about how we can integrate our disciplinary knowledge and pedagogical commitments with mission, about how we can imagine ourselves into the university mission as teachers. Interested in learning more about our mission, check out these Office of Mission and Ministry resources.
RSVP for lunch by 10am Mon. 4/8.
AI & Teaching (Open FLC Session): Wed. 4/10 from 12-2pm, UHall 3030
Missed the previous events on AI? Want to connect with fellow faculty members to discuss teaching and AI? Faculty are welcome to this FLC session, which is being open to all faculty. Join Robert Rovetti (Math) and FLC members for this facilitated discussion. Lunch served with RSVP by Mon. 4/8.
Faculty Summer Assessment Grants Due: 4/15-5/15
The Office of Assessment is offering summer grants to LMU faculty to work on projects related to assessment of student learning outcomes within academic programs. Examples of previously successful awards and a description of the application details can be found here.
FYS Meet & Greet: Tues. 4/16 from 2pm-3:30pm, UHall 3030
Teaching First Year Seminar in Fall 2024? Join the Core, in partnership with the CTE, for a pre-semester FYS Meet and Greet! Connect and collaborate with your teaching partners, swap assignment ideas with your colleagues, and mingle with our cohort of full-time Writing Instructors on Tuesday, April 16th from 2-3:30pm in UHall 3030. Light refreshments will be served.
Questions? Contact: jaedyn.baker@lmu.edu
RSVP here.
Laudato Si' in the Classroom: Wed. 4/17 from 12-1:30pm, UHall 3030
LMU has signed on to the Laudato Si' Action Platform. This global initiative inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical "On the Care of Our Common Home" (Laudato Si’), will guide our campus on a journey toward ecological renewal by 2030. Join us for a lunchtime conversation exploring the ways in which our participation in the Laudato Si’ Action Platform brings a particularly LMU flavor to the question of ecological awareness in the classroom. The event will begin with a short conversation about “Care for our Common Home: Laudato Si’ in the LMU Classroom” between Dorian Llywelyn SJ (Director, LMU Center for Ignatian Spirituality) and Roy Fisher (CTE Faculty Fellow for Mission and Ministry), followed by a group conversation exploring intersections in our pedagogy between LMU Mission/Identity and ecological awareness. We seek to help make explicit what many on our campus are already doing implicitly, and to provide useful tools and language for collaborating on raising ecological awareness in the classroom. Come share your insights and experiences with colleagues.
Join us at noon on Wed. April 17 in the CTE. Lunch served with RSVP by noon on Mon. 4/15.
DEIAJ Listening Session for Faculty: Thurs. 4/18 from 12-1:30pm, UHall 3030
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions and the dismantling of DEI in institutions across the nation, it is imperative that faculty lead the conversation and make recommendations for action at LMU. Faculty voices will lead this workshop, facilitated by CTE Faculty Fellow Keisha Chin Goosby (DEI). The goal of the workshop is to identify 3-5 areas of need as identified by our faculty. Following the workshop, Dr. Chin Goosby will communicate the faculty perspectives, concerns, needs, and suggestions directly to the Office of DEI in order to determine immediate actionable steps to support faculty in the advancement of DEIAJ for themselves, students, and colleagues.
Lunch served with RSVP by Tues. 4/16.
Past Events
Missed an event? Unable to attend a scheduled workshop? Not to worry! Check out the CTE past events and resources page (updated regularly).