Past Events

Cultivating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning across USM is a workshop-based event designed to support USM faculty in exploring or advancing their engagement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Organized by the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, the event will consist of simultaneous, hands-on workshops -- 101: Beginning Your SoTL Project and 301: Advancing Your SoTL Project -- followed by lunch and the opportunity to continue workshop conversations and explore special topics in SoTL.

Date

Friday, October 24, 2025, from 8:00 am to 1:30 pm ET

Cost

Free

The  2024 USM Health Equity Convening, a unique opportunity for cross-institutional learning, will focus on Advancing Civic Health and Health Equity. This convening brings institutions together to share their campus action plans, engage in cross-institutional learning, and discuss critical issues related to motivating students to build community and change the future of health through political and civic engagement.

Date

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Time: 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM

This one-day summit brought together faculty, students, librarians, instructional designers, and administrators from across all of Maryland’s postsecondary institutions to explore the contours of open pedagogy, from philosophical questions it raises about power in the classroom to practical questions about how to jump into the practice. At the heart of the conference was the question: what happens when students and their collaborators—peers, faculty, community members, librarians, and more—drive knowledge creation?

Date

8:30 am-4:00 pm ET
Special Networking Reception on Thursday, November 30, 6:00-7:30 pm

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