T&L Newsletter: Events with Josh Eyler and Kate Elkins; Exploring Outdoor Learning

In our April newsletter...two visiting speaker events anchor the term. On April 23, Josh Eyler (University of Mississippi) joins us for an interactive session rethinking the role of grades in higher education — from grade inflation narratives to alternative grading models; Josh is the author of Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It and How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching. On May 11, Katherine Elkins (Kenyon College), co-founder of Kenyon's AI lab and a principal investigator in the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium, presents "Beyond AI Literacy: What Higher Ed Is Getting Wrong About AI."

We also share signup links for all the spring term workshops — hands-on labs on designing AI-resilient assignments, faculty panels sharing real experiences teaching with GenAI, sessions on outdoor learning and accessible course design, and a candid open dialogue series called Teaching in These Times for faculty navigating teaching amid polarization, technological change, and student uncertainty. And for those planning ahead: DCAL's Course Design Institute, offered in-person in June and via Zoom in July.

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