Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Mid-Semester Inquiry Surveys (MSIs)
Date: October 15, 2025
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Location: Zoom
Presenter: Cecilia Gomez, Associate Director of Teaching and Pedagogy, CFDE
Want to know how your students are experiencing your course before final evaluations? Mid-Semester Inquiry Surveys (MSIs) give instructors a powerful opportunity to gather formative, anonymous feedback from students midway through the semester. By using MSIs, you can gain real-time insights into student learning, engagement, and classroom dynamics—allowing you to make meaningful adjustments that improve the student experience and your teaching effectiveness.
In this interactive workshop, you will:
- Learn how to introduce and conduct an MSI in your own class
- Discover how MSIs can strengthen instructor-student rapport and create greater transparency in your teaching practices
- Identify ways to use MSI results for immediate course modifications as well as long-term improvements
- Explore how the CFDE can support you in interpreting student feedback and identifying pedagogical adjustments
Whether you are new to mid-semester student feedback or are looking to refine your approach, this session will equip you with the tools to foster deeper student engagement and enhance learning outcomes—while giving you the chance to explain the rationale behind your teaching choices.
This workshop is open to all faculty, graduate students, post docs, and staff.
Listening to Beauty
Two events with Megan Poole
Please join us to welcome Dr. Megan Poole, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Writing from UT Austin, for a book talk & writing colloquium.
BOOK TALK
THURS. 10/16, 4PM TO 5:15PM
CALLAWAY, KEMP MALONE, 3rd FLOOR
Listening to Beauty: Stories of Sea, Sound, and Rhetorics of Science (Chicago UP) is a “moving study of how encounters with beauty advance scientific discovery.”
WRITING COLLOQUIUM
FRI. 10/17, 12PM TO 1:15PM
CALLAWAY, C201, 2nd FLOOR
A conversation with the author about writing and listening to beauty. A light lunch and limited free books will be available. All are welcome!
RSVP
https://tinyurl.com/ewcpoole
Organized by the Emory Writing Center, with support from the Emory Writing Program & Writing Across Emory, & the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence. Questions? Contact Dr. Melissa Yang (melissa.yang@emory.edu).
Active Learning for Student-Centered Teaching
Date: October 30, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Zoom
Presenter: Cecilia Gomez, Associate Director of Teaching and Pedagogy, CFDE
Active learning is a proven approach that transforms classrooms into dynamic spaces where students engage, apply, and reflect on what they are learning. This workshop introduces college instructors to a variety of active learning strategies that can be incorporated into courses of any discipline or class size. Participants will explore the pedagogical foundations of active learning and evidence-based techniques techniques to maximize learner-centered teaching and student engagement.
This workshop is open to all faculty, graduate students, post docs, and staff.
Register Here
“What happened to reading?"
Date: November 10, 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:30 pm
Location: Goizueta Business School, W131 (in-person workshop)
Presenter: Dr. Annie Abrams
Organized by Writing Across Emory and First-Year Writing
Co-sponsors: High Tower Fund, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Program in Linguistics, Department of English, Center for Faculty Development (CFDE), Emory Writing Center
"What happened to reading?" A workshop on college readiness and critical reading across the curriculum.
Following the disruption of the pandemic and the advent of LLMs, faculty expectations around student reading are increasingly unsure. In this workshop, we will have an opportunity to consider:
- What should we expect of our students when it comes to reading?
- How can we support students as they develop reading practices throughout their studies?
- What roles does reading play in our courses and curricula?
with Dr. Annie Abrams, author of Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheats Students. She received her doctorate from NYU and teaches high-school English at the Bronx High School of Science. Her current reseach examines how the College Board and federal education policy shape student reading.This workshop is open to all faculty, graduate students, post docs, and staff.
2025 Fall "Faculty Connections" Showcase and Networking Event for International Education Week
Join us for International Education Week 2025, officially celebrated November 17, 2025, with a variety of events held during the entire month of November for faculty, students, and staff. At Emory, International Education Week is organized by the Global Engagement Office with committee members from nearly all schools and multiple units. The theme for 2025 is One World, Many Voices: Education for a Compassionate Future.
Faculty Showcase Opportunity
We invite faculty across the university to showcase their international collaborations by responding to the following questions:
- What international collaborations are you involved in, either in your teaching or in your research and scholarly endeavors?
- What type of work is involved in these collaborations?
- How has the international nature of the work enhanced your teaching, scholarship, or research?
What to Expect
Selected faculty members will be featured by the CFDE with their biographical information, responses, and photos. Additionally, the showcased faculty and other Emory community members will be invited to an in-person, networking event on November 19, 4:30 - 6:00 pm to discuss their international collaborations.
Please note: If we receive more submissions than we are able to feature, selections will be made to ensure representation across Emory’s academic units and the global regions reflected in the submissions.
Call for Submissions
Full-time and part-time faculty, including graduate students teaching independently, are invited to submit the following information:
- Biographical statement (maximum 50 words)
- Responses to the three questions above (maximum 200 words total)
- A professional headshot
Please complete this brief form
Faculty Connections is organized by a subcommittee of the IEW planning team (Cecilia Gómez, Heather Boldt, and Natalie Cruz).
