Upcoming Events
Front & Center Webinar: Conversational Space-Making
Workshop/Training
Front & Center Webinar: Conversational Space-Making: A Student Resource for Transforming Conflict. The Conversational Space-Makers Program supports students as they navigate some of the difficult conflicts and challenges that they face. In this session Clair Canfield will explain how this program was developed, the foundational principles that guide it, and how students can access and benefit from this service.
Igniting Active Learning: Energize Your Lessons and Boost Collaboration
Workshop/Training | Sparkshops
Discover how to transform your classroom with active learning strategies that engage students in critical thinking and collaborative problem-solving. This session will explore practical ways to design interactive lessons and foster small-group collaboration, empowering students to take charge of their learning while building essential teamwork skills. Get ready to energize your teaching and boost student participation!
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Prompt Engineering for Optimal Results
Workshop/Training
This workshop assumes you have a basic understanding of generative AI and are ready to use it to design content and interactive activities and help your students do the same. We will review and demonstrate several documented techniques and frameworks for prompting and interacting with generative AI tools to get desirable results.
CIDI Workshop - How to Quickly Create a Beautiful Canvas Course
Workshop/Training
Design Tools for Canvas allows you to rapidly stylize and build out your Canvas course, allowing you to focus more time on planning engaging content and learning activities in your course.
ETE Learning Circle (Evidence-Based)
Workshop/Training | Learning Circles
The New Handbook of Counseling Supervision by L. DiAnne Borders and Lori L. Brown Facilitated by Daphne Hartzheim and Emilee Packer Tuesdays 3:00 pm Sept 5 | Oct 3 | Nov 7 | Dec 5
ETE Learning Circle (Digital-Age)
Workshop/Training | Learning Circles
Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) by Jenae Cohn Facilitated by Jessie Koltz Thursdays 12:00 pm Oct 3 | Oct 10 | Oct 17 | Oct 24 | Oct 31 | Nov 7th
CIDI Workshop - Getting Started in Zoom
Workshop/Training
Learn the basics of Zoom, including scheduling, recording, managing settings, and making a good learning environment for your students
I Am First Banquet
Ceremony/Awards/Celebration
Across the country universities celebrate first-generation student day on November 8th. At Utah State University we have a week full of events! Join us for our 8th Annual "I Am First" Banquet to celebrate the university's first-generation college students. Due to limited seating, please RSVP to confirm your spot.
Contrapower Harassment in Higher Education
Workshop/Training
This hour-long workshop will explore the concept of contrapower harassment, where individuals with less institutional power (such as students) harass those with more authority (such as faculty or staff). Participants will learn about the dynamics of contrapower harassment, its impact on college and university environments, and strategies for responding to and preventing these behaviors.
Rubrics and Equity-based Grading
Workshop/Training
This hour-long workshop will introduce participants to the principles of equity-based grading and the use of rubrics to promote fair and transparent assessment at the college and university level. Educators will explore how to design rubrics that align with learning goals while reducing bias and promoting student success across diverse backgrounds. Through hands-on activities and discussions, participants will gain practical tools for implementing grading practices that recognize student effort, growth, and diverse ways of demonstrating knowledge.
CIDI Workshop - Running Secure Exams in Canvas
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to create exams in Canvas, plus tools and methods for protecting quiz content and ensuring academic integrity when in-person proctoring isn't an option. (Includes discussion of Proctorio, question banks, time limits, question design, and more.)
Introduction to Student Resources
Workshop/Training
This 60-minute seminar is designed to expose faculty to the variety of student success resources available at USU. Participants will gain valuable knowledge about USU’s academic support infrastructure. They will recognize that they are not alone in supporting their students' academic progress. The Academic Belonging & Learning Excellence (ABLE) team will lead faculty in discussions that will include an understanding of WHY these supports are necessary, WHERE to find these resources, and HOW faculty can successfully broker students to these success partners
Rubrics and Equity-based Grading
Workshop/Training
This hour-long workshop will introduce participants to the principles of equity-based grading and the use of rubrics to promote fair and transparent assessment at the college and university level. Educators will explore how to design rubrics that align with learning goals while reducing bias and promoting student success across diverse backgrounds. Through hands-on activities and discussions, participants will gain practical tools for implementing grading practices that recognize student effort, growth, and diverse ways of demonstrating knowledge.
CIDI Workshop - Importing and Updating Your Course for the New Semester
Workshop/Training
This workshop addresses how to copy content from one semester's course to another, update due dates and settings, check for problems, and make additional enhancements.
USU Health and Human Services Career Fair
Fair/Festival
The USU Health and Human Professionals Career Fair is open to all majors but is targeted towards Healthcare and Human Services majors. This event is a great opportunity for both local and national companies to recruit our amazing USU students and alumni for open roles. Some of the industries that may be represented include: Nursing, Kinesiology, Audiology, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Health Science, Family Studies and Human Development
Setting the Tone for Semester-Long Student Participation by Changing up the First Day of Class
Workshop/Training | Sparkshops
Do you sometimes find students reluctant to participate in your course in spite of your best efforts and charming personality? Come attend this Sparkshop to learn a way to start the semester in a way that sets a positive tone for your course and engenders student buy-in from the beginning by collaboratively establishing classroom norms on the first day of class. (I know and I get it, class time is a precious commodity. In my experience, this practice has paid off in spades throughout the semester.)
CIDI Workshop - Creating Usable, Accessible Courses
Workshop/Training
Learn quick and easy practical tips to make sure your content more usable and easy to learn for the students in your course. In this workshop we will go over how to 1) get rid of extra content and simplify navigation, 2) get rid of broken links and make sure your content is published, 3) embed and caption your videos to make them more usable for everyone, and 4) provide content in user-friendly formats that work well on mobile devices.
Residency Information Session
Information/Orientation
Learn how to become a Utah resident to apply for in-state tuition for the Spring 2025 and Fall 2025 semesters.
Front & Center Webinar: Balancing Support and Boundaries with Students
Workshop/Training
In this session we will cover the challenging task of how to be a caring supporter of students while setting healthy boundaries and attending to your own self-care. We will do exercises to increase intentionality and consistency in boundary setting; consider our verbal and nonverbal boundary cue behaviors; play a Kahoot game to see if we’re merging into the therapist lane; do active script work for responding to struggling students; and consider personal “policies” for maximizing student support and healthy boundary setting. We will also discuss how to refer to which resources when small and big mental health issues arise.
Introduction to Student Success
Workshop/Training
Student success is core to our land-grant teaching mission at USU, where we are committed to helping students from a wide range of backgrounds be successful. Participants in this 2-hour seminar will be introduced to the culture and context of teaching for student success at USU. Faculty will learn about best practices to facilitate student success and academic belonging in their classes as well as gain familiarity with the range of supports that are available to students and faculty.
Diwali
Cultural | Inclusive Excellence
Diwali (Hindi word) means row of lights which is metaphorical to the knowledge and enlightenment. According to Hindu mythology, It is celebrated as victory of good over evil, light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance. It is celebrated with lightening up the diyas (type of candles) as a sign of bringing light in the life.
CIDI Workshop - AI in Teaching: Basics and Opportunities
Workshop/Training
In this workshop, we discuss the basics of generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Dall-E, etc., as they pertain to higher education. Specifically, we'll seek to address how they work and ways teachers can choose to approach them in their classes. We'll discuss syllabus language, AI detection tools, and ways to encourage students to think critically, use AI responsibly, and demonstrate their own capabilities. We'll also share some ideas and examples of AI as a teaching tool.
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