Annual Faculty Retreat
Illini Union Rooms A, B, C
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
March 6, 2025
8:00 am - 2:30 pm
Program
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30 – 9:00 |
Introduction Michel Bellini (Director/Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning – CITL) Welcome John Coleman (Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs) |
| 9:00 – 9:10 |
Overview Cheelan Bo-Linn (CITL) |
| 9:10 – 9:30 |
“Teaching Lessons from Film and Television” Facilitators: Lucas Anderson (CITL) & Cheelan Bo-Linn (CITL) |
| 9:30 – 10:30 |
“What’s Good Here?” Getting Specific about What Good Teaching Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like” (experiential session) Facilitators: Geoffrey Herman (Computer Science and Provost Fellow) Dawn Bohn (Food Science & Human Nutrition, Siebel Center for Design, and Provost Fellow) Saadeddine Shehab (Siebel Center for Design) |
| 10:30 – 10:50 |
Coffee and Tea Break |
| 10:50 – 11:10 |
“Getting Better at Getting Better” Facilitator: Shelly Schmidt (Food Science & Human Nutrition) Video Vignette: Caitlin Clarke (Health & Kinesiology) Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider (Computing & Data Science) Karle Flanagan (Computing & Data Science and Statistics) |
| 11:10 – 12:00 |
“ ‘Let’s Open the Classroom Door’: Hearing from Our Peers” “Being Observed” Facilitator: Geoffrey Herman (Computer Science and Provost Fellow) Video Vignette: Maria Cattai de Godoy (Animal Sciences) Kevin Wandke (Mechanical Science and Engineering) Carrie Wilson-Brown (Media & Cinema Studies and Advertising) “Being an Observer” Facilitators: Eric Benson (Art + Design) Amy Woods (College of Applied Health Sciences and Health & Kinesiology) Video Vignette: Betsy Brandt (Dance) Jacob Henschen (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Debra Korte (College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences) |
| 12:00 – 12:45 |
Lunch Funding Opportunities for Educational Innovation at Illinois |
| 12:45 – 1:30 |
“Let’s Visit a Class” (experiential session) Facilitators: Cheelan Bo-Linn (CITL) Jay Mann (Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education- AE3) |
| 1:30 – 2:00 |
“Why We Do What We Do”: Hearing from Our Students Facilitator: Lucas Anderson (CITL) Video Vignette: Ariana Mizan (Business Administration) Marco Antonio Soto (Aerospace Engineering) Caroline Thies (Psychology & Advertising) Lathanial Wells (iSchool) Joshua Zhao (Psychology – Cognitive & Brain Science) |
| 2:00 |
Conclusion |