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Updates from the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning
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Monday, August 24, 2026 

‌From the Director

‌Beck Krefting
 

A new academic year means new students, new questions, and new opportunities to rethink how we teach, lead, and learn together. This fall’s CLTL offerings are designed to create space for conversation, experimentation, and connection across campus. Whether you join us for a workshop, writing/creating accountability group, book discussion, teatime, or something entirely new, we hope you’ll find an idea — or a colleague — that sparks your curiosity.
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This space, devoted to CLTL programming, is also available as a (quiet) workspace each weekday morning, from 9 a.m. to noon. 

Skidmore is an institutional member of the NCFDD, which gives you FREE access to many excellent professional development workshops/trainings. 

Review the events for the New Faculty Learning Community and the newly updated Chairs/Program Directors Learning Community, slated for this fall semester. 
Read August Announcements

Allies in Learning and Teaching

To request that a trained student work with you this semester, complete this brief form.

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Mental Health First Aid: Help Build Skidmore’s Community of Care

9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19. Sign up here.

 

The AI-Resistant Classroom

2:30 – 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 25 and Friday, Oct. 30. Sign up here.

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Teatime: Let’s Talk Student Accommodations with Meg Hegener

4 – 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2, Weller Room (Lib 212). RSVP here.

 

Fall Book Club: American Indigenous Democracy: A Call for Interdependence

2:30 – 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24, Weller Room (Lib 212). RSVP here.

The North Woods Project 

This project will support faculty across disciplines in bringing social, economic, and environmental sustainability into new or existing courses through a collaborative faculty cohort, workshops, and course development grants. Look for the call for proposals in early September! 

 

The Reimagining Aging Initiative

What does aging have to do with your discipline? Probably more than you think. This initiative will support faculty as they explore aging and later life through their own disciplinary lens — and develop a new course along the way.
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Scholarly and Creative Endeavors

Join one of the SCE Work Groups being held this fall. Sessions are held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., and Fridays noon – 1 p.m.

Interpretive UDL Studio

Apply to this year-long initiative, providing faculty and staff an opportunity to engage with Universal Design for Learning Concepts across academic and professional processes.

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