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Center for Teaching and Learning

The Mission of the CTL

The Center for Teaching and Learning cultivates communities of inquiry and practice to promote excellent teaching, learning, and scholarship in the liberal arts. We nurture the learning environment of Grinnell College by fostering conversation and reflection at the intersection of pedagogy, the scholarship of teaching and learning, instructional design, and academic technologies. We advance practices of teaching and learning that are accessible, inclusive, and grounded in the best available evidence.

Community Friday, Sept. 25: “AI at Grinnell in 2026-27,” with Andi Tracy, Associate Dean, and Erik Simpson, Director of the CTL

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lunch buffet opens at 11:45 a.m.
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Andi Tracy
Erik Simpson

You are cordially invited to join us at the Community Friday on September 25th. Associate Dean Andi Tracy and CTL Director Erik Simpson will set the stage for conversation about AI in the current moment, both at Grinnell and more broadly. We will begin the session with some remarks about the many ways our circumstances have changed since the last AI-related Community Friday session a year ago, from institutional work at Grinnell to changes in AI technologies and their reception. The session will include time for the gathered community to share their ideas and questions in conversations, especially exploring the ways in which new questions and challenges may have arisen in your own experience of AI-related issues in the past year.

Early arrival is encouraged for the lunch buffet that opens at 11:45 a.m. Thank you for using reusable flatware to cut down on plastic waste. The fall Community Friday schedule is available on the CTL website at Community Fridays - Center for Teaching and Learning.

On a day to day basis the CTL works to:

  • Support the development of teachers and learners through consultations, tutorials, and workshops at the course and curricular levels
     
  • Build a culture of reflection, engagement, and celebration around liberal arts teaching and learning through programming such as Community Friday lunch and the annual Teaching with Technology Fair
     
  • Welcome new faculty members to the Grinnell College learning community through New Faculty Orientation and ongoing programs of faculty development
     
  • Maintain a lending library of physical resources (mainly books) for teachers interested in reading about teaching strategies, inclusive teaching, alternative grading, and digital pedagogy (including teaching with or about AI).
  • Integrate established and emerging digital technologies, methods, and practices into teaching, learning, and scholarship through the Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative
     
  • Administer major elements of the digital campus infrastructure for teaching and learning, such as the Sites@Grinnell platform for web hosting and digital publishing
     
  • Provide training and support for classroom technologies and hardware/software applications such as Story Maps, Hypothes.is, and WeVideo
     
  • Collaborate with campus partners such as the Libraries, ITS, and DASIL, and coordinate campus-wide initiatives such as the Vivero Digital Scholarship Fellows program

Contact Information

Phone
641-269-3020

Humanities and Social Studies Center, S1370
1226 Park Street
Grinnell, IA 50112
United States

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