The work of teaching and learning takes ongoing courage and humility, and the end of the semester invites reflection. Join your colleagues for an in-person lunch and facilitated discussion about how we, as educators, are called to step up in extraordinary times. 

Join CTI for a two-day institute of working sessions and guided discussions on course design, promoting student engagement and active learning, evaluating student learning, and syllabus design.

Join CTI for this five-week institute, which runs 2-4 p.m. Thursdays, May 30 - June 27. Make a project, design an assignment, and explore how to help students communicate complex ideas in meaningful and creative ways.

In spring 2024, five faculty were recognized for their creative approaches to using – or precluding use of – generative AI. These downloadable case studies based on their work may be adapted for different courses and learning environments.

Find strategies for encouraging free and open inquiry, engaging wide-ranging and sometimes conflicting or contending ideas, and fostering inclusive learning environments.

Our evolving resource now features suggestions for developing accessible teaching strategies. And coming soon: ideas for how generative AI can help create more accessible courses.

The winners of the Teaching Innovation Awards are learning to play by – and create – new rules for using generative AI in the classroom. Full story in the Cornell Chronicle.

Read how two of the 2023-24 Innovation Grants recipients are using immersive technology, empathy and the arts to build student confidence and connection in music and global & public health courses.

Alumni Mary Frann (Somers) Heidhues, PhD ’65 and Ruth (Miskovsky) Mahr, PhD ’66 tell the story of the "in-between generation," and what it was like to be a woman graduate student at Cornell from 1958-1962.

In our latest blog post, find a meditation on Gloria Anzaldúa and flashpoints in the classroom. Then dip into some love, hate and active learning at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art!