Universal Design for Learning Themed Workshop Series
This 4-part series is for faculty and staff who would like to explore UDL principles & integrate them into their teaching and advising practices. If you are interested in designing learning experiences that elevate learners’ strengths, mitigate barriers to success, embrace individuality, and cultivate your students’ agency, this series is for you!
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Alternative Grading Themed Workshop Series
This 4-part series offers resources, support, and community for faculty across disciplines to explore, adopt, and/or refine alternative grading or assessments in their courses. It is open to people new to these concepts, as well as experienced practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding and share their successes and challenges.
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Writing Accountability Group
Do you have a writing project with an impending deadline? Consider joining this Writing Accountability Group, a supportive, structured program designed to help faculty establish and maintain consistent progress on scholarly and creative projects. It offers dedicated time, space, and support to help you meet your professional goals.
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Student Pedagogical Partnership Program
This Spring, all Lafayette faculty and staff members are invited to be paired with a trained Student Partner who will observe their courses and provide feedback regarding the classroom experience. This is a unique opportunity for faculty to receive highly beneficial, yet non-evaluative feedback from students on their teaching.
Sign up by January 23, 2026
Teaching Squares
All Lafayette faculty are invited to participate in the Teaching Squares Program. It allows instructors from diverse disciplines to form a teaching square, observe one another’s classes to reflect on their own teaching practices, see other methods of teaching at the institution, and build community.
Sign up by January 30, 2026
New Faculty Learning Community
All new faculty in their first year at Lafayette are invited to continue with the year-long learning community designed to support them in advancing their understanding of the college, expose them to campus resources that support pedagogical and scholarly efforts, and provide them with opportunities for informal discussion and community building.
Forging Connections Series
The series will continue in the Spring with additional sessions that aim to advance learning and scholarship that connects with the public, confronts harmful narratives head-on, and reasserts the vital role of science, academic discourse, and higher education in sustaining a vibrant, inclusive democratic society.
Check out the Spring 2026 lineup
Communities of Practice
CITLS collaborates with various campus partners to facilitate and support a variety of communities of practice, in which small groups of faculty that share similar interests meet periodically to collaborate, share resources, learn a new skill or gain other expertise, network, hold workshops and events and more.
Learn more about our communities of practice