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Nineteen faculty members have been selected for four extended faculty development programs in community-based pedagogy

Faculty and staff across campus units collaborate on a new publication that makes the case for intentional faculty development centered on the unique needs of first-year students.

Along with other members of the Penguin Random House Common Reads Advisory Board, Paula Patch, associate director of the Common Reading Program and First-Year Foundations in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Core Curriculum and associate teaching professor of English, facilitated a half-day workshop on launching and sustaining a Common Reading program at the annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Seattle in February.

Award-winning author Alejandra Campoverdi turned the 2025-26 Common Reading Lecture into a conversation, taking questions from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students about her life of “extreme contradictions" detailed in her memoir "First-Gen."

Saffie Hollingsworth '27 has created a board game to help first-year students navigate university.

A contingent of faculty and staff leaders within ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's First-Year Experience Advisory Committee attended the national First-Year Experience conference in New Orleans, Louisiana to share ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's #1 ranked First-Year Experience work.

Adventures in Leadership sessions focus on the successful transition of incoming first-year students through community building, finding resources and having conversations about college life at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.

The Engage program at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ provides an opportunity for incoming students to spend a week on campus before their first semester, learning more about the university and volunteering in the local community.

The project was prompted by a common love of dogs among the students in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ 1010 class of Senior Lecturer April Post.

The author of "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" will speak to the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ community and host workshops on Thursday, Sept. 21 and Friday, Sept 22.