events

One day Institute to share Learning Lab grant findings and the work done by Communities of Practice. 

Join us for a conversation where people can say what they actually think about AI and discover how different the issue looks from other corners of higher ed.

An Insight Debate is not a traditional debate: it’s a facilitated conversation designed to draw out a wide range of perspectives and identify where unexpected overlap exists. It’s a chance to meet SFSU colleagues & students you wouldn’t normally be in a room with and begin building a wider intellectual community across institutions.

No preparation required, thoughtful listeners welcome!

The Center for Equity & Excellence in Teaching & Learning invites faculty and tutors to participate in the JEDI Workshop: What's in a Name?, a hands-on pronunciation workshop designed to help educators confidently and respectfully pronounce the names of their students and tutees. Held on September 2, 2026, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Library LIB 242 (available both in person and via HyFlex), this interactive session will focus on names commonly found in Chinese, Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese languages. Participants are encouraged to bring their class rosters and practice name pronunciation with experienced language coaches Hana Arnold, Sudha Krishnamoorthy, Perry Udomwadhanaphorn, and Trang Tran. Attendees will learn the sounds and pronunciation patterns of each language, gain familiarity with common male, female, and non-binary given names, and develop confidence in pronouncing frequently used family names. Led by Dr. Robert Kohls, Associate Professor of English/TESOL, through the Pronunciation Awareness Project, this workshop offers a meaningful opportunity to foster a more inclusive, welcoming, and equitable learning environment where every student's identity is acknowledged and respected.

Join us for a conversation where people can say what they actually think about AI and discover how different the issue looks from other corners of higher ed.

An Insight Debate is not a traditional debate: it’s a facilitated conversation designed to draw out a wide range of perspectives and identify where unexpected overlap exists. It’s a chance to meet CSU colleagues & students you wouldn’t normally be in a room with and begin building a wider intellectual community across institutions.

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No preparation required, thoughtful listeners welcome!

At the event, we will celebrate faculty who have made a difference in the lives of SF State undergraduate or graduate students through exemplary teaching practices. We will also celebrate faculty who completed all the CEETL learning community requirements and attended our workshops and events. 

We hope you can join us! 

Join the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning for a workshop in collaboration with the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement.

This session will provide an overview of the 2027 Call to Service Grants, administered by ICCE.

This session will introduce funding opportunities, including:

• Service-Learning Course Development Grant
• Civic and Community Engagement Support Grant
• Eisman Award for Engaged Scholarship

Participants will learn how to navigate the updated application process, including rolling submissions, funding priorities, and how to develop a strong proposal aligned with community-engaged learning.

The workshop will also highlight how these grants support community-engaged teaching, student learning, RSCA, and partnerships with community organizations.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can feel overwhelming at the scale of an entire course. This 60-minute workshop focuses instead on a more manageable entry point: a single class meeting.

Building on ideas introduced in the JEDI PIE 2 module (though no prior participation is required), we will explore the UDL guidelines through the lens of Why–What–How:

• Why does this day matter for students? (Engagement)
• What is essential for them to learn? (Representation)
• How can they engage with and demonstrate learning in flexible ways? (Action & Expression)

Participants will apply this framework to one upcoming class session and consider how small, intentional design choices can scale across a semester. The goal is not a full course redesign, but a sustainable planning habit that makes individual class meetings clearer, more inclusive, and easier to navigate for both students and instructors.

Join us as we explore evidence-based, low-prep, and discipline-flexible gamification strategies that boost motivation, participation, and engagement without turning courses into video games. We'll consider both in-person and online teaching strategies that boost cognitive engagement and celebrates student success as they journey through the quests of coursework.

In this second part, instructors will learn to apply TILT to an assignment, keeping at the forefront transparency in the use of AI, workplace skills students are learning and any other 'purpose' instructors have built an assignment for. There will be peer-review and collaborative TILT-ing of assignments. Instructors are encouraged to bring an exam, assignment or rubric that is TILT-ed for peer-review. 

We encourage participants to review the recording from TILT Series Part 1 of the February 2nd workshop and do the homework assigned by going through these slides. 

Instructors will learn about the TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching) framework and how to apply it to their assignments, syllabi, exams and other course materials. TILTing two assignments in a semester has been shown to improve student outcomes and course completion. Dr. Anoshua Chaudhuri will lead this workshop with materials generously shared by TILTHigherEd.