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                Third Annual Participating Faculty Symposium 2025 In-Person
Day 1: Changing Cultures
This third year of the Participating Faculty Symposium focuses on the theme of changing cultures and culture change. This symposium shines a light on participating (full-time, part-time, and adjunct nontenure-stream) faculty as educators, scholars, and leaders at Marquette. Stemming from a deep desire of participating faculty in two Communities of Practice hosted since Spring 2023 and the good work of many in our campus community, this event honors great work being done by these faculty who teach Marquette’s students, produce valuable scholarship, and are willing to share their expertise with the wider campus community through this symposium. All sessions are organized, hosted, and facilitated by participating faculty across campus with this year’s theme of culture change highlighting the changing culture of teaching and learning on Day 1 (supporting students, teaching Core classes, leaning into the strengths of clinical faculty in the classroom, and teaching in light of Generative AI) and ways to continue to change Marquette’s culture to support participating faculty as educators, researchers, and leaders at Marquette.
Participating faculty juggle multiple competing responsibilities and often have very full teaching schedules, so come as you can to what you can, and feel free to duck out when needed.
GOALS 
By the end of the Symposium, attendees and participants should: 
- Learn about and discuss what participating faculty members’ collaborative teaching, research, and leadership looks like across campus;
- Connect with each other to cultivate community, network, get new ideas, and contribute to our teaching and research communities;
- Celebrate successes in teaching among all symposium participants, sharing tips and tricks for success; and
- Elevate awareness about resources available to participating faculty to support them in their teaching, research, and leadership desires.
All faculty, staff, and graduate students should come! Participating (part- and full-time), tenure-stream faculty, teaching assistants, and staff in all units on campus are welcome to attend.
If you would like to participate by having your research/scholarship or teaching materials displayed throughout the conference, please use this link. If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out to Dr. Melissa Shew. Thank you for your interest!
This symposium is organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning and receives support from the Office of Faculty Affairs, the Student Success Initiative, and the College of Nursing.
Full agenda below:
| DAY 1: CHANGING CULTURES | 
| 8:30-9:00: Coffee and Connections | 
| 9:00-9:30: Welcome Address: How is Marquette’s Culture Changing for Participating Faculty? Presenter: Gigi Makky (Clinical Professor, Biomedical Sciences) | 
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 9:30-10:20: Reigniting Our Passion for Teaching and Learning Presenters: Roy Avilla, Nicole Bungert, and Melissa Shew. Table discussions facilitated by LCSS student employees As the new statue of St. Ignatius outside the AMU reminds us, we should “set the world ablaze;” however, it can be difficult to realize that mandate in our teaching and in our lives when our culture at large and more locally in our classrooms seems to be changing. It is not clear how to navigate some of those forces to best support students and us. Through a facilitated presentation and discussion featuring student success initiative leaders and student employees from the LCSS, this session provides a high-level overview of who our students are and what they want and need as well as how best to support them—and ourselves—as a whole teaching and learning community. Data from the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis (OIRA), funded opportunities for participating faculty looking to adopt open access resources in their classes, and ideas about developing hope-filled course design will help anchor this conversation. Additionally, attendees will be encouraged to share their own observations about what’s happening in their classes as well as solve problems they do or may encounter this year. | 
| 10:30-11:00 The Changing Culture of the Marquette Core Curriculum Presenter: Mike Olson (MCC Director and Teaching Associate Professor, Philosophy) Marquette’s Core Curriculum is a central point of pride for graduates of the university because it is an integrated and holistic core that honors disciplinary expertise while helping students forge connections across disciplines. All colleges benefit from the Core Curriculum because it shapes students in humanizing, foundational ways regardless of major. This session provides a high-level overview of the ways that the MCC provides an integrated, intentional, and Ignatian view of education for all students. All faculty—from those teaching in the Core and those who don’t to those with clinical backgrounds and those with academic backgrounds—will benefit from this session by learning about the changing culture of the MCC and how it connects to their students. | 
| CONCURRENT SESSION A: Changing Cultures in Core Courses 11:00-11:50: Changing Cultures in Discovery Tier and ESSV Courses Presenters: Amy Blair (Professor, English), Erin Hastings (Adjunct Instructor, Social and Cultural Sciences), Laurieann Klockow (Clinical Professor and Associate Chair for Instructor, Biomedical Sciences), and Carl Mueller (Teaching Associate Professor, Math and Stats) Nearly all Core courses contribute to more than one academic program, which requires instructors to integrate learning outcomes from different curricula in a single course. Finding ways to lean into the MCC learning outcomes and the Discovery Tier Guiding Questions without compromising departmental learning outcomes and objectives can be challenging. The discussion will provide discussion of how instructors from STEM fields, the social sciences, and the humanities strike the balance while leaving time for plenty of examples of how people are incorporating MCC and departmental curricular goals into their courses. 
 
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| 12:00-12:50: Lunch! Eat all the food. | 
| 1:00-1:50: Changing the Culture of MOI Courses Presenters: Gigi Makky (Clinical Professor, Biomedical Sciences) and Eric Dimmitt (Clinical Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership) The Method of Inquiry (MOI) is one of the cornerstone foundation courses of the Marquette Core Curriculum, designed to foster integrative learning across disciplines. This session will share research from Marquette on Integrative Team Teaching (ITT), including preliminary data, followed by a faculty panel discussion. Panelists, who currently teach MOI sections, will offer their perspectives on the course design and delivery, highlighting both the benefits and challenges of team teaching. The discussion will also reflect on student feedback and evaluations of the MOI. Through this dialogue, we aim to explore the role of MOI and ITT as defining features of a Marquette education and how its model shapes student learning. 
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| CONCURRENT SESSION B: From the Clinic to the Classroom 11:00-11:50: Changing Cultures from Clinical Practice to Classroom Instruction Presenters: Panelists will include Michael Danduran (Clinical Professor, Exercise Science), Ann Melvin (Clinical Assistant Professor, Physician Assistant Studies), Michele Sheehan (Clinical Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy), Toni Uhrich (Clinical Assistant Professor; Director, Human Performance Assessment Studies) This session engages a panel of faculty who have or who currently practice in their clinical or professional field and now (also) teach at Marquette. Each panelist member will address how the gifts from their nonacademic or “extra-academic” life have enriched the classroom and will describe the barriers that this creates. They will offer teaching methods and learning processes that have enabled students to better engage in learning. Panelists will field questions from all attending faculty to illustrate ways to bring clinical strengths to Marquette’s students. 
 
 
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| 12:00-12:50: Lunch! Eat all the food. | 
| 1:00-1:50: Teaching and Measuring Student Competency in Our Programs Presenters: Ann Melvin (Clinical Assistant Professor, Physician Assistant Studies), Ann E. Millard (Clinical Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy), Virginia Riggs Clinical Associate Professor, College of Nursing, and Michele Sheehan (Clinical Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy) A cross-section of clinical faculty will talk about the way in which our regulatory and accrediting bodies influence student assessment and provide examples of the measurements of competence that are applied in their areas to assess readiness for professional roles. | 
| 2:00-2:50: How is Our Teaching Culture Changing in Light of Generative AI? Presenters: Abram Capone (Teaching Assistant Professor in Philosophy and CTL Faculty Teaching Fellow), Maxwell Gray (Digital Scholarship Librarian and CTL Discussion Series Leader on AI), Jacob Riyeff (Teaching Associate Professor in English and Director of Academic Integrity), Julia Schultz (Professor of Practice in Strategic Communication) 
 This session examines how generative AI is changing our cultures of teaching and learning as well as how generative AI is changing our different disciplinary cultures in different ways. A panel of four educators from four different backgrounds will provide short reflections on how generative AI is transforming their pedagogies in this moment to help ground insights and questions from symposium participants. This session is designed for all educators present to share their perspectives and learn from how others are thinking and what they’re doing in light of generative AI. | 
CTL Participating Faculty Organizing Team
- Dr. Jon Metz
- Dr. Julia Schultz
- Dr. Khadijah (Gigi) Makky
- Dr. Virgina Riggs
- Dr. Melissa Shew
- Date:
- Monday, November 24, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 8:30am - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Raynor Libraries, Beaumier Suites B/C
- Audience:
- Faculty Graduate students and post-docs Staff
- Categories:
- Special events
