2025 Events
AUG 2025 | Instructor-Facilitated, Personalized Student-AI Learning Partnerships (Extramural)
2025 International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC) Lilly Conference, Asheville, NC
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Kathleen Kennedy and her CUES project
JUL 2025 | Meaningful Writing Happens: Writing Across Campuses (Extramural)
2025 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC), hosted by Colorado State University
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Emily Jo Schwaller and her CUES project (with Anh Dang)
JUN 2025 | Community Mentor-Apprentice Program Design Workshop
Hosted by the American Indian Language Development Institute
A workshop stemming from CUES Distinguished Fellow, Aresta Tsosie-Paddock's CUES project
APR 2025 | Community Stories and Experiential Learning in the Borderlands: A Pedagogical Framework
Featuring members of the 2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team, this hybrid exhibition will bring you inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
APR 2025 | A Model Framework for Integrating Bi-national Community-Engaged, Culturally Responsive Partnerships into Sustainability Education (Extramural)
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025
A presentation featuring the 2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Team and their CUES project
APR 2025 | Integrating CLA into First Year Writing and Spanish Teaching
Part of the Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in Action Series, University of Arizona
A presentation connected to the 2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team project (Staples et al.), featuring guest speakers Meghan Moran Wilson, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University and Lillian Gorman, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
APR 2025 | Reflection in Experiential Learning: Improving Affective Student Learning Outcomes
Featuring Brian Mayer, CUES Distinguished Fellow, Acting Director of the School of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Public Health, this hybrid seminar and panel will bring participants inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
MAR 2025 | From Words to Worlds: Genre Pedagogies and Corpus Tools to Foster Critical Language Awareness in World Language Education
Part of the Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in Action Series, University of Arizona
A presentation connected to the 2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Team project (Staples et al.), featuring guest speaker Bruna Sommer-Farias, Ph.D., Michigan State University.
MAR 2025 | AI Enhanced Instruction: Fostering Human-AI Cocreation in Learning
2025 Teaching Exchange Symposium, Hosted by the University of Arizona
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Kathleen Kennedy and her CUES project
MAR 2025 | Designing Assignments in an Online CURE to Advance Data Thinking and AI Literacy in Healthcare Breaches (Extramural)
36th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), Hosted by University of Central Florida
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Li Xu and her CUES project
MAR 2025 | Place-Based Learning in the Arizona Borderlands
Featuring Jennifer Jenkins, CUES Distinguished Fellow, Professor in the Southwest Studies Center and Professor of English, this hybrid seminar and panel will bring participants inside a CUES funded project and unpack its relevance for advancing teaching and learning at the University of Arizona.
FEB-MAR 2025 | MECha Workshop: Advancing the Scholarship of Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning
This in-person two-day workshop will bring together U of A faculty and staff across all disciplines with the goal of furthering the scholarship and praxis of culturally responsive teaching and learning. The workshop will specifically focus on examples, questions, and pedagogies connected to local and place-based environments. Participants will workshop pedagogical possibilities, explore mechanisms for implementation in U of A courses, and generate ideas for designing scholarly activity aimed at studying the philosophy, design, implementation, and outcomes of culturally responsive teaching and learning. The workshop will build upon content shared through UCATT’s Inclusive Teaching mini-courses and the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Development Institute.
The workshop will feature a place-based, cultural experience in partnership with Galeria Mitotera and the U of A’s CIELO program. The experience will include a local food and mural tour, historical overview of South Tucson, and workshopping of connections to cross-disciplinary content.
FEB 2025 | Informational webinar: El-Mumtaaz: Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic (Extramural)
Hosted by Georgetown University Press
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Mahmoud Azaz and his CUES project (with Ayman Mohamed)
JAN - FEB 2025 | Engaging with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Workshop
Structured in three two-hour sessions over five weeks, this in-person workshop series will follow a flipped format (participants will read/prepare work in advance) and explore SoTL research questions, study designs, and methods of data collection and analysis.
The workshop, open to faculty and the U of A community, aims to support SoTL project design at our institution, particularly through proposals for CUES Distinguished Fellowships.
JAN 2025 | The AI Savvy Educator: Transforming Course Design and Prep (Extramural)
2025 International Teaching Learning Cooperative (ITLC) Lilly Conference, San Diego, CA
A presentation featuring CUES Distinguished Fellow, Kathleen Kennedy and her CUES project