Scholarly Reflections on Teaching
Scholarly Reflections on Teaching is a 艾可直播speaker series that asks individual 艾可直播to unpack the various sources 鈥 disciplinary expertise, careful observation of student learning, scholarship on teaching, attentiveness to their own experience, etc. 鈥 that inform their pedagogical practice and spur creative experimentation in teaching. Each year, the CTE partners with different campus stakeholders to bring together speakers on a particular theme.
Read, Think, Talk: Reinvigorating the Fundamentals of the Liberal Arts
The liberal arts tradition is a cornerstone of higher education, and many 艾可直播continue to feel deeply committed to the skills, values, and scholarly orientations it espouses. Alongside that commitment, changing contexts and challenges 鈥 including聽 barriers to students鈥 sustained engagement with texts, academic risk-taking, sense of belonging, etc. 鈥斅 are pushing 艾可直播to get clearer about what is fundamental about the liberal arts tradition and why it continues to matter to them and to their students. Inspired by a course of the same name envisioned by a BC 艾可直播member, the 鈥淩ead, Think, Talk鈥 series will feature BC 艾可直播reflections about how their interpretation of the liberal arts has changed and their experiments intended to recenter the liberal arts in their varied and shifting classroom contexts.
Part of the Center for Teaching Excellence鈥檚 Scholarly Reflections on Teaching program, and organized in partnership with the Institute for the Liberal Arts, this year鈥檚 series meets monthly over lunch and concludes with a late afternoon reception in March. Find more information and registration links for individual sessions below, and email centerforteaching@bc.edu with any questions.
Fall 2026 Speakers
Jeremy Evans (CSOM): The How and Why of Liberal Arts Education
Thursday, September 29, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)
Virginia Reinburg (History): The Human Classroom
Monday, October 19, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)
Jenna Tonn (Engineering): Human-Centered Engineering and the Liberal Arts
Wednesday, November 4, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)
Spring 2027 Speakers
Can Erbil (Economics): Teaching Economics and the Human Judgement in the Age of AI
Wednesday, February 3, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)
Krithika Vachali (English): Trust and the Liberal Arts Classroom
Thursday, March 18, 4:00 - 5:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)
Past Speakers
During the 2025-2026 school year, the CTE is partnering with the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society to feature 艾可直播reflections on 鈥淭eaching to Inspire Changemakers.鈥 Addressing student desires to 鈥渕ake a difference鈥 and to affect change in society, industry, and scholarship, faculty聽 in a variety of disciplines will discuss how they aim to prepare students to:聽1) draw on disciplinary methods and expertise to articulate and better understand the context and substance of the challenges they are seeking to address; and 2) discover how they can harness that expertise to be agents of meaningful change.
Fall 2025 Speakers
Edson Severnini: Practicing Agency in the Classroom
Thursday, October 23, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Laura J. Steinberg: Building Students' Capacity as Changemakers through Entrepreneurial Thinking & Project Based Learning聽
Wednesday, November 19, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Spring 2026 Speakers聽
Roc铆o Calvo (SSW): Amplifying Unheard Voices to Advance Graduate Students' Formation
Wednesday, February 4, 12:00 - 1:15 pm聽
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Heather Olins (Biology): Teaching Climate Change Through an Empowerment Lens: Lessons Learned
Wednesday, March 25, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
Clarissa Keen (Chemistry):聽聽Connecting Chemistry to Community: Scaffolding Student-Led Public Health Projects
Tuesday, April 14, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
245 Beacon St. Room 501
As a precursor to the Scholarly Reflections on Teaching Program, the CTE and the University Core Curriculum collaborated聽on a 艾可直播speaker series on the theme "Engaging Difference & Justice".
Andr茅s Castro Samayoa on Engaged Accompaniment: Inviting Students to Account for their聽Different Selves in the Classroom
Tuesday, September 24, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
艾可直播 Room, Corcoran Commons
Cherie McGill on Defining Success
Wednesday, October 30, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
艾可直播 Room, Corcoran Commons聽
