Provost’s Seminars on Teaching at the University of Michigan

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Provost’s Seminars on Teaching provide opportunities for lively and substantive dialogue across disciplinary boundaries about a wide range of teaching and learning issues. The provost invites individual faculty members to participate and then hosts the seminars. Invitation lists include faculty at all ranks and from all U-M schools and colleges, especially those with special interest or expertise in the seminar topic. The 125+ attendees are campus leaders in curricular and instructional innovation.

While the Office of the Provost selects the themes for the seminars, the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) is the primary organizer of the events. CRLT forms a faculty committee to plan each seminar, with the collaboration of other units as noted below.

Seminar Themes: 2024-1994

Date	Themes
November 21, 2024	Supporting Student Mental Health and Well-Being
February 20, 2024	Undergraduate Education: Forming a Common Vision
December 8, 2023	Generative AI & Teaching
March 20 & 21, 2023	Advancing Climate Education
December 5, 2022	What's Next?
May 15, 2019	Building a Community Around Disciplinary Approaches to Investigating Student Learning
December 13, 2018	What is a Master's Degree?
May 1, 2018	Building Structures that Encourage Interprofessional Education
November 28, 2017	Beyond Grades: How Do We Represent Student Accomplishment?
March 14, 2017	Teaching at the Bicentennial: Building the Evidence Base for Engaged Learning
October 5, 2016	Transformed: Foundational Courses for a Third Century
May 16, 2016	Thinking Long-term: Next Steps for Engaged Learning at Michigan and Beyond
December 11, 2015	Humanities Classrooms, Digital Environments, Critical Questions
March 10, 2015	Unscripted: Engaged Learning Experiences for U-M Students
October 29, 2014	REBUILDing STEM Education at Michigan
March 21, 2014	Engaging Difference
October 22, 2013	Tri-Campus Provosts' Seminar: Engaged Learning, Community-Based Research and the Community Engagement Corridor [with Michigan State University and Wayne State University]
May 13, 2013	Flipping the Classroom
October 30, 2012	Teaching in the Cloud: Using Google Apps and Other Online Collaboration Tools for Student Engagement
November 7, 2011	Teaching with Collections: Engaging Students in the Archives, Museums and Gardens of the University of Michigan
March 15, 2011	Connecting College Teaching with the Science of Learning
November 2, 2010	Educating Globally Competent Students
May 11, 2010	Dialogues on Teaching Sustainability: Where Music Meets Medicine, Engineering Meets Politics, the Humanities Meet Business, etc.
September 30, 2009	What Are They Learning? Approaches to Assessing Student Learning
May 12, 2009	Mentoring for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Success [with Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies]
October 15, 2008	Teaching the Millennial Generation
March 24, 2008	The Philosophy and Practice of Grading
November 2, 2007	The Impact of Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in the Classroom and Beyond
March 13, 2007	How Students Learn: Sharing Research and Practice
September 26, 2006	Preparing Students for the Ethical Challenges of Professional Life
January 12, 2006	How Do Research and Creative Work Converge with Teaching - Within the Classroom and Beyond?
May 11, 2005	New Bridges to New Knowledge: Instructional Technology and Collaboration
October 22, 2004	Our Undergraduates' New Challenges: Navigating the Multidisciplinary University
May 17, 2004	Multicultural Teaching in a Contested World
November 10, 2003	Unraveling the Complexities: Faculty Investigating Their Students’ Learning
April 30, 2003	Graduate Students as Teachers [with Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies]
May 1, 2002	Integrating U-M Resources into Your Teaching
October 31, 2001	From Expectations to Results: Aligning Goals, Methods, and Assessment [with School of Education]
January 23, 2001	Community Learning for a Diverse Democracy [with Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning]
October 31, 2000	Michigan Learning Communities: Promoting the Faculty Member’s Role In Teaching and Learning
May 1, 2000	Promoting Student Learning Through Writing [with Sweetland Center for Writing]
November 15, 1999	Improving Teaching and Learning: The Experiences of Other Research Universities
May 4 -5, 1999	Multicultural Teaching and Diverse Classrooms
November 12, 1998	Interdisciplinary Team Teaching: Rewards and Challenges
May 19, 1998	Faculty and Student Expectations Regarding Teaching and Learning
November 12, 1997	Developing and Assessing Critical Thinking Skills
May 5, 1997	Assessing Student Learning
January 31, 1997	Ten Levers for Success: General Findings from Research That Can Help Us Understand and Improve College Teaching, Assessment, and Learning
May 22, 1996	Multiple Methods of Evaluating Teaching: Colleagues Helping Colleagues Improve and Reward Teaching
1994-1996	The original Provost’s Seminars were gatherings without specific themes.