Connecting, Collaborating, and
Celebrating the Art of Teaching
The conference has ended. Thank you for supporting a wonderful day of conversations and ideas!
A one-day summit of talks, activities, and workshops.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: David Gooblar
David Gooblar is an assistant professor in the departments of English and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching (Harvard University Press, 2019) and The Major Phases of Philip Roth (Continuum, 2011), and the co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Roth After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination (Lexington 2016). Since 2013 he has written about college teaching for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Case for Teaching
Although colleges and universities across the institutional spectrum see diversity, inclusion, and equity as top priorities, it is clear that higher education in this country still has a long way to go on this front. For instance, the graduation rate for white students at 2-year public institutions is more than double that of Black students. While there are numerous causes for this state of affairs, I argue that our teaching is part of the problem. Of course, if college teaching is part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution. I’ll lay out the case for teaching: what teaching approaches have been shown to help all of our students succeed, and how to put them into practice. I’m convinced that if we rethink our approach to the college classroom, we can make great headway in the pursuit of equity.
There will be a follow-up workshop offered during the concurrent sessions.
The conference proposal period has ended. We are very pleased to have had such wonderful presentations! Please check back for the 2022 conference!
You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow."
-John Dewey