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)

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.