Faculty Retreat

All COVID-19 protocols will be adhered to during this event.

Annual Faculty Retreat
Illini Union Rooms A,B,C
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 4, 2022

8:00-8:30
Registration

8:30-8:40
Introduction
Michel Bellini, Director/ Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL)

8:40-8:50
Welcome
Andreas Cangellaris, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost

8:50-9:10
Overview
Cheelan Bo-Linn, CITL

9:10 -9:50
“Stigma: Stereotyping Students in Your Classroom”
Emily Knox, School of Information Sciences 

9:50 – 10:30
“Brick or Glass? Shattering the Garden Walls”
Vivechkanand “V” Chunoo, Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications (ALEC)

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee/Tea Break

10:45 – 11:20
"Exploring Alternative Grading: ensuring Learning is Accessible for All Students"
Rebecca Reck, Bioengineering

11:20-12:00
“Creating a Teacher-Student Partnership for Student Success”
Anna Dilger, Animal Sciences and Shelly Schmidt, Food Science and Human Nutrition

12:00 – 12:45
Lunch and …..
Educational Innovation and Opportunities at Illinois
Lisa Monda-Amaya, Interim Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Designate/Office of the Provost

• 2021-2022 Faculty Retreat Grant Recipients: Sihui Ma, Food Science & Human Nutrition and Amy Leman, Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communications. “Preparing Career-Ready Students in a Post-Pandemic World by Helping Them Build Effective Virtual Team Skills”
• 2021-2022 Faculty Retreat Grant Recipient: Daniel Maroun, French & Italian. “Wicked Assumptions: An Introduction to Intercultural Competency”

12:45 – 1:25
"Course Design for Well-Being: Towards a Students' Bill of Rights"
Judith Pintar, School of Information Sciences

Student Panel

• Courtney Richardson, Graduate Research Assistant, School of information Sciences
•  Soeun Alyssa Choi, Psychology
• Jessica Fuller, Art History/Classics
• David Hopping, Computer Science/Anthropology
• Megi Mecolli, English
• Rewo Oshe, Psychology

1:25 – 2:10
“Gardens for All: An Overview of Open Educational Resources and Examples at Illinois”
Sara Benson, Library

     Video Vignette

• José Andino Martinez, Chemistry
• Christy Bazan, College of Applied Health Sciences

Karle Flanagan, Statistics, and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, Computer Science

     Student Panel:

• Talia Duffy, Journalism
• Charlie Tang, Integrated Biology
• Kaitlyn Chan, Computer Science + Statistics

2:10 – 2:15
Closing
Michel Bellini, CITL

This Retreat is presented by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) and co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Teaching Advancement Board (TAB)

Acknowledgement to the Faculty Retreat Committee: Michel Bellini (CITL), Cheelan Bo-Linn (CITL), Jason Chambers (Advertising), Bob Dignan (CITL), Emily Knox (School of Information Sciences), Michelle Marquart (Conference & Event Services) and Shelly Schmidt (Food Science and Human Nutrition)

Additional thanks to Lucas Anderson (CITL), David Favre (CITL), Jim Wentworth (CITL), the CITL Instructional Media staff, Conferences and Event Services, and the Teaching Advancement Board

Special Acknowledgement to Our 2022 Faculty Retreat Presenters

We are pleased to have had the following faculty share ways in which they have broken down the classroom walls to ensure success for our students.

Please feel free to contact them

• Emily Knox, School of Information Sciences, knox@illinois.edu
• Vivechkanand “V” Chunoo, ALEC, vchunoo@illinois.edu
• Rebecca Reck, Bioengineering, rreck@illinois.edu
• Anna Dilger, Animal Sciences, adilger2@illinois.edu
• Shelly Schmidt, Food Science and Human Nutrition, sjs@illinois.edu
• Judith Pintar, School of Information Sciences, jpintar@illinois.edu
• Sara Benson, Library, srbenson@illinois.edu
• Karle Flanagan, Statistics, kflan@illinois.edu
• Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, Computer Science, waf@illinois.edu