Upcoming Events
Emory's Living Health & Wellbeing Week
Workshop: Rememory Box: A Collaborative Craft and Coffee Hour with Clint Fluker - February 23, noon-1:30 pm
In this workshop, artist Clint Fluker, Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement, invites you to slow down and engage in the quiet, restorative power of Unit Origami. Moving beyond the digital, we focus on the rhythmic, tactile process of intricate folding to create a "Rememory Box"—a physical sanctuary for personal history.
This session treats the act of making as a form of meditation in art. As we fold, we explore how geometry can hold the weight of our stories, transforming simple paper into a complex vessel for cultural activation. Participants will leave with a renewed sense of how intentional making can serve as a tool for grounding and reflection.
Location: CFDE (Woodruff Library Suite 216)
Campus Walk with the CFDE - February 25, 11:30 - 12:30 pm
Join a leisurely walk around campus led by Vialla Hartfield-Mendez and other CFDE staff. Rain activity tbd.
Location: Meet in front of the Carlos Museum
Bocce on the Quad - February 27, 1 - 3 pm
Bring colleagues, friends or students and get some fresh air and fun. You do not need to know how to play bocce to join! Rain activity tbd.
Location: Emory Quad flagpole to join a game
Teaching and Pedagogy
Panel Discussion: Deepening experiential learning with entrepreneurial education – February 26, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Experiential learning is a powerful approach to education but integrating it into curricular classes can be challenging. Across Emory, professors are leveraging concepts and program design from the world of entrepreneurship and start-ups to give students innovative and impactful learning experiences. In this panel discussion, three professors will talk about the ways they leveraged entrepreneurial education in their classes and spark ideas about how you could do the same.
Location: Zoom
Workshop: Active learning for student-centered teaching. – March 5, 2026, 10:00 - 11:00 am
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.
Location: Zoom
Workshop: Facilitating student interaction in the active learning classroom - March 18, 2026 - 10:00 - 11:00 am
This workshop builds on the foundations established in the previous active learning workshop, "Active Learning for Student-Centered Teaching.” In this session, participants will explore ways to maximize active learning and increase student engagement. We will discuss the role of interaction in active learning, examine frameworks for structuring collaborative activity in the active learning classroom, and experience activities that both promote successful learning for all students and foster student engagement.
Location: Zoom
Workshop: Pre-Texts - Monday, March 30, 2026, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
On Monday, March 30, the CFDE’s Director of Engaged Learning and Professor Vialla Hartfield-Méndez and Professor Kim Loudermilk from the Institute for the Liberal Arts (ECAS) will facilitate a workshop using the “Pre-Texts” pedagogical approach. The simple protocol of Pre-Texts invites participants to engage with a complex text (could be literary, scientific, historical, political, philosophical, theoretical, etc.) through the lens of multiple art forms, thus driving close reading, innovation, critical thinking, collaboration, and full participation. As a Pre-Texts advisor, facilitator and “capacity builder,” Hartfield-Méndez has used this highly flexible approach in her own classes and in other contexts. Loudermilk has also integrated this approach and other arts-based approaches to teaching in courses in the ILA.
This workshop will introduce the approach, provide a brief overview of how it has been used in multiple settings (in a variety of disciplines), and open a discussion of how participants might use it in their own teaching in their own disciplines in the humanities, sciences, or social sciences, or in other pedagogical contexts.
Location: Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Suite 216 Woodruff Library. Participants must be able to attend the entire session.
Workshop: Bring entrepreneurial education into your classroom. – March 31, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm
In this workshop, you will work with professors who have integrated entrepreneurial ideas, learning formats, and experiences into their classrooms. They have leveraged human-centered design, customer interviews, pitch days, rapid prototyping, and more to give their students new ways to learn key concepts and skills
Location: CFDE
CFDE's Teaching and Learning Showcase – April 24, 2026, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Research and Scholarship
Save the Date: Book Publishing Workshop with Laura Portwood-Stacer -April 14, 2026, 11:30 am - 3:00 pm
Save the Date: Grantwriting Workshop with Betty Lai -May 14, 2026, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
The Scholarly Writing and Publishing Fund
Applications now open for the 2025–26 academic year. A grant program designed to help faculty seeking professional editorial support for a range of serious scholarly works.
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