South Side Book Club: "High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing" by Audrey Petty
12:00–1:00 pm
Zoom
Join the Office of Dual Careers and Faculty Relocation and the College’s Chicago Studies program for our quarterly meeting of the South Side Book Club.
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Recognizing and Addressing Bias
12:00–1:15 pm
Zoom meeting
Unconscious or implicit biases are the attitudes, preferences, and assumptions that any person holds toward another individual or group of people. In this workshop, educators will consider the impact of negative biases on student learning and how to address them.
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Using Social Media to Advance Your Academic Mission
9:30–10:30 am
Zoom
Developing a strong social media strategy is an asset in today’s academic environment. By effectively using digital channels, academics can draw more attention to their research and scholarship, and to their academic field. Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medicine Education, will share the evolution of her social media presence.
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Spring Real Estate Trends
12:00–1:00 pm
Zoom
Join the Office of Dual Careers and Faculty Relocation for a lunchtime conversation with Molly Bartlett of Compass and Eva Loseth of @Properties. This discussion will focus on some of the trends and challenges that Eva and Molly are seeing this spring in the Chicago real estate market.
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Finding Funding to Advance Your Research and Scholarship
10:00–11:00 am
Zoom
Join UChicago faculty, Foundation and Corporate Relations Officers, and individual giving experts to learn about obtaining federal funding, foundation funding, and philanthropic gifts. This session will provide an overview of the foundation and funding ecosystem, share information about securing individual donations, and feature faculty sharing their own experiences.
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Inclusive Assessment
12:00–1:15 pm
Zoom meeting
Educators can use inclusive formative assessment to understand students’ ongoing progress in a course and to refine their approach to teaching based on this understanding. In this workshop, participants will consider different ways of documenting students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes in order to gauge students’ ongoing learning and barriers to learning. Instructors will also learn how to adjust their teaching to address the wide-range of learners in the classroom.
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Symposium for Teaching with Technology
1:30–5:30 pm
Zoom
The UChicago Symposium for Teaching with Technology brings together UChicago faculty, instructors, lecturers, learning designers, academic technologists, and students to share and showcase a wide variety of innovative and effective uses of technology in teaching and learning.
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Symposium for Teaching with Technology
1:00–5:30 pm
Zoom
The UChicago Symposium for Teaching with Technology brings together UChicago faculty, instructors, lecturers, learning designers, academic technologists, and students to share and showcase a wide variety of innovative and effective uses of technology in teaching and learning.
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Engaging Your Audience: Effective Ways to Communicate Complex Research Information
10:00–11:00 am
Zoom
Learn how to translate complex scientific ideas and research findings into accessible communications for the general public and broad scientific audiences.
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Getting Your Message Out
10:00–11:00 am
Zoom
Faculty members have an important role to play in the media. As experts in their fields, they have vital information that needs to be shared. This session will outline best practices for expertly distilling complex research, ideas, and opinions into memorable quotes for media interviews. It will be led by Dr. Ruth Ollison, an award-winning former broadcast journalist turned communications trainer.
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