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Sep 11, 2026
Tom TobinGUEST
where they said, okay, UDL is one of our four big things that we want everybody to know how to do.
Tom TobinGUEST
So they said, okay, anybody who takes programming from the Teaching and Learning Center, if you're an instructor and you take two of those and you successfully complete all the projects and activities in them, two out of the four, in a one-year span, Then after you complete the second one, you will move to the front of the line for choosing which courses and which times and which rooms you get next semester, regardless of seniority.
Luke HobsonHOST
I love that.
Tom TobinGUEST
They cleared that with the faculty union and the union said, oh, yeah, let's do that.
Derek BruffHOST
Thanks to Chelsea, Shauna, and Jennifer for coming on the show to share their experiences with tech.
Derek BruffHOST
And thanks to Shauna's boss and director of UK's Teaching Center, Trey Knatzer, for connecting me to this impressive program and these fascinating faculty.
Derek BruffHOST
If you'd like to learn more about any of our guests or read more about tech and the courses that it supports, see the show notes for links.
Derek BruffHOST
And if you know of an example of a course or program that is helping humanities students develop durable skills and prepare for the workforce, please let me know.
Sarah SilvermanGUEST
So that's a fun fact about me.
Sarah SilvermanGUEST
But while I was doing that, I worked at the Teaching and Learning Center that was on the UC Davis campus.
Sarah SilvermanGUEST
the Center for Educational Effectiveness.
Sarah SilvermanGUEST
And I eventually went into that field and worked at a couple of similar places after that.
Katie Marie McNeilGUEST
And there's some really great-- There's some people who really care deeply about teaching, so I'm really excited to learn from, yeah, my new colleagues and, and to learn from across, across campus as well.
Katie Marie McNeilGUEST
At MacEwan University, there's a lot of strong support for faculty and students, so I'm, I'm excited to kind of, you know, get to meet MacEwan's version of the Center for Teaching and Learning and get to learn all of the, the people at their career services and see all the great things that they offer students.
Katie Marie McNeilGUEST
So I'm looking forward to developing my courses this summer and l- getting to meet colleagues, staff, faculty, like, just other folks across the university to see where I c- where we can work together and where we can integrate the great work they're doing into some of my courses.
Katie Marie McNeilGUEST
Like, I, I'm get to, to teach the first year history course, which I think is going to be super fun, so I want to try and introduce as many student services to my first year students as possible because, you know, they're gonna be fresh into a new, like, space, which is university, and I, I just want them to know about all the amazing people that are there who wanna help them [laughs] on their, on their academic journey.
David W. ConcepcionGUEST
Yes, they know how to do accounting on a spreadsheet, but they can't work themselves out of a box.
David W. ConcepcionGUEST
And so they hired the faculty that were working at the then Teaching and Learning Center to come in and do trainings with their faculty.
David W. ConcepcionGUEST
And I was the junior most member of this team.
David W. ConcepcionGUEST
And their faculty just were having none of it.
Ashley NewbyHOST
Dr. Austin was also the CUNY Graduate Center Inaugural Archival Fellow at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and and a Jackie McLean Fellow at the University of Hartford.
Ashley NewbyHOST
She has served as Diversity Faculty Fellow for Professional Development at the Center for Teaching and Learning and with the Division of Inclusive Excellence at California State University, Sacramento.
Ashley NewbyHOST
Dr. Austin has shared some of her most recent research on the Black youths of Jim Crow era, Washington, D.C., in a video for CAS's new series, The Journey, How New Ideas Are Born.
Ashley NewbyHOST
She is currently an Associate Professor of History in African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University.
Justin WolfersGUEST
But for now, I think the real threat is for those of us teaching the large service classes, uh, ChatGPT will not only pass your class, but enable a student in your class to get an A simply by using Control + C and Control + V.
Justin WolfersGUEST
And then, um, the third observation I want to make is, I don't know about you, but I do know that I sat at the University of Michigan hoping to get useful assistance and insight from our Center for Teaching and Learning, and I think the quality of advice I was given was terrible, and it was so bad that it radicalized me to start working on this, and that's why I'm here giving this seminar right now.
Justin WolfersGUEST
Um, part of the problem is that our students are better at this than many of the faculty are.
Justin WolfersGUEST
Um, but if you feel calm because of the q- the advice you've been given by your university, I want you to stop feeling calm.
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Markus BrunnermeierHOST
Mm.
Justin WolfersGUEST
Because that still might be enough for the research side of your job, not really, but definitely is not gonna be enough for the teaching side.
Justin WolfersGUEST
Um, the Center for Teaching and Learning, I would either fire them or hire more of them.
Justin WolfersGUEST
But they need to understand their job is they're facing the biggest technological revolution, I genuinely believe, in their lifetimes, and possibly in the history of higher education.
John DrabinskiHOST
I'm fantastic.
John DrabinskiHOST
Uh, outside of this one little fact, obviously [chuckles] I am a human being on the other side of the podcast, but, uh, got an email from Teaching and Learning Center today that said fall semester is almost here.
John DrabinskiHOST
And so outside of wanting that entire organization fired on the spot [both chuckling] -
Alix ChapmanGUEST
Yeah