This session will kick off our fall teaching squares program. We'll go over the logistics of the program, give participants a chance to talk about what they want to focus on this semester, and lean into some of the interdisciplinary magic of the Adams Center. This program is a chance to "borrow" some of the great teaching strategies being implemented across campus. 

Haven't signed up for Teaching Squares yet? It's not too late. Just join us for this session.

Led by Steve Hare
Reading Scripture in a group setting is a simple but moving practice. Join us as we read selected Pauline epistles. These sessions will offer space to slow down and relish that shared experience. Together we will read, listen, consider and regard the power, depth and beauty of Scripture. 

Other sessions on Oct. 1, Oct. 15 and Nov. 12, all Thursdays.
Spiritual Formation Session

Creating an accessible Canvas course is easier than you think. Join us for an introduction to UDOIT, a tool designed to help faculty identify and resolve accessibility issues within Canvas. We'll walk through how to run a scan, prioritize fixes, and incorporate accessibility into your regular course maintenance without adding hours to your workload.

Pope Leo XIV’s first major writing, Magnifica Humanitatis, offers Christian wisdom for living in a world of artificial intelligence. In these sessions, we will read slowly through this work, asking what it means to live as people of faith amidst the various social, political, and moral challenges that artificial intelligence represents. 

For this session, please read paragraphs 90-130 of the online version or Chapter three in the book.

Online Version: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Audio Version: 

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/audiobook-of-pope-leo-xiv-s-encyclical-now-available.html

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szx4ako8uys

Join us for this student panel to consider how Third Culture Kids navigate identity, belonging and the college classroom. The students will help us imagine what it means to come to college when your understanding of home, culture, and belonging may be different from the people around you.  In addition, we'll talk about how faculty can best support these students.

Test your geography, then hear the journeys behind it. This session pairs an interactive map challenge with insights on migration — helping faculty see Latin America not as a single place, but as many paths that lead to our classrooms. Join us to test your knowledge, learn about unique features of Latin American countries, and consider how this knowledge translates to the classroom.

In the Disengaged Teen, journalist-educator duo Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop describe four student ways of being in the classroom that reflect different engagement responses to their educational and social environment. From the passenger who just coasts along, doing just enough to pass to the achiever who constantly checks the rubric and gradebook so they can make sure they get an "A," we'll explore how different modes of engagement form, manifest, and can be supported or challenged. Each session, we'll dig into one of the engagement modes and discuss what it means for our work teaching and supporting students.