Weekly Emails

Approximately once a week throughout the academic year CAFE director Victoria Bhavsar emails CPP faculty, offering an assortment of upcoming events, opportunities, teaching tips, career advice, important announcements, and more. Below is a selection of past emails.

2023

• Sep-20: Early-mid-semester feedback; individual consultations
• Sep-13: Progress reports for students; lots of new scholarly and career resources
• Sep-7: "Power Hour"; Registration open for the AI symposium!
• Sep-1: A valuable professional asset
• Aug-24: Useful first day activity, Canvas reminder, and LOTS of cool opportunities
• Aug-14: Syllabus language for AI; news from IT, Instant Access, and Canvas
• May-4: Four useful notes including why not to suggest to students to withdraw
• Apr-25: Faculty Day 2.0, ideas for student evaluations
• Apr-18: Responding to AI-generated work; upcoming events & programs
• Apr-11: Two special events and a helpful action
• Mar-16: A discussion strategy; CAFE's Summer Institute 2023
• Feb-27: CPP Care Center, another Canvas tip
• Feb-21: Canvas tips for midterm, new programs and resources
• Jan-31: Resource for holding good discussions; upcoming programs & resources
• Jan-23: Just-in-time reminders for getting started
• Jan-19: Two great ideas as you finalize spring plans
• Jan-9: Spring Syllabus, ChatGPT, the end of Blackboard, and more

2022

• Dec-20: End of semester, end of year notes
• Dec-13: Thoughts on final grades; uploading grades to Canvas gradebook
• Dec-6: The END of Blackboard approaches! plus, update on grade information
• Nov-30: WU's vs F's vs I's; end-of-semester checklist, and a couple of new things!
• Nov-16: Strategies to get high completion rates for student evaluations
• Nov-9: Waking up knowledge from early on; upcoming events & programs
• Oct-24: "Must do, should do, could do" and an early special event announcement
• Oct-17: The "Active learning library" and "Solo Success" workshop
• Oct-13: "Colleging" support; correction from last week; Wall of COOL
• Sep-29: Checking in with students; "Increase Your Writing Productivity," and first call for 2023 Wall of COOL nominations
• Sep-21: Mid-term feedback, last call for "peer to peer coaching" program
• Sep-14: Supporting students with covid; upcoming programs and resources
• Sep-7: Teaching microtip, upcoming programs, and "Everybody's Mentor"
• Aug-31: Teaching microtip; upcoming programs
• Aug-25: Idea for first day, Canvas news, and program highlights!