Presenters: Student Panelists

As ACU celebrates Kingdom Week: Many Cultures, One Body, join us to listen and learn from our students about their lived experiences on our campus. This panel invites us to consider how culture and faith intersect in the classroom, in campus life, and in our relationships with students. This conversation will give us an opportunity to reflect on how our teaching, policies, and daily interactions can more fully reflect the diverse and global body of Christ—and how we can continue growing as a community that honors both faith and cultural difference.
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Across our campus, faculty, staff, and students are navigating the rapidly evolving terrain of AI. And while we all must reckon with the place of AI in higher education (especially relative to our respective disciplines), there remains the necessary conversation about Christian spiritual formation and AI. Come grab a cup of coffee or tea and join your colleagues for this important conversation!

The Student Advisory Board is pulling up their own chairs and warmly inviting you to join them. These six students have been thinking carefully about what would be most meaningful to explore together with faculty, and they're eager to join them for that conversation. When do faculty get the chance to simply sit with students — not in office hours, not after class, but in a real dialogue about student flourishing? This is that chance. Come curious and ready to engage.

Join us for fun and games with colleagues! Take a break from the usual routine and enjoy a relaxed meal and friendly competition with short and medium-length games.
Collegiality Session

In this session, members of the T&P committee will share suggestions and recommendations for building your T&P portfolio. While this session is aimed at those who will be submitting their portfolios next fall, anyone is welcome to attend and learn what they can be doing now to prepare for the T&P process. 
Research and Scholarship Session

Relationship-Rich Education Reading Group | Monday, March 23, 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Amanda Pittman and Katelin East
Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. In Relationship-Rich Education, Felten and Lambert provide readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts. Join us for a conversation about how to create sustainable ways to engage students well. We will discuss Chapters 4-6.

Author Peter Felten will be joining us via Zoom for the April 13 reading group session and in person for the Best Practices Conference in September.

Final date: April 13.
Teaching and Learning Session

Andrew Lumpe
AI tools are rapidly becoming ubiquitous. Join this session as we explore the ethical use of AI tools related to conducting research including assistance with literature reviews, citation management, structuring and outlining, writing support, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

Reading scripture in community seems to be something of a lost discipline. These sessions will provide an opportunity for faculty to simply read scripture aloud together. At the close of each session, we will share a few moments of reflection on what we have read and heard. The sessions will be held on the following Wednesdays:

• April 8

• April 22

In a society that often treats the body as an obstacle to productivity, disciplines of embodiment name a deeply Christian affirmation of finitude, creatureliness, and dependence. This session invites faculty to consider how academic habits form our bodies as well as our minds, and how embodied practices can reshape our approach to work, rest, and presence with students.