SoTL's Past Themes and Initiatives
2022-2023: A Time for Renewal – Being Equity-Minded, Creating a Culture of Persistence and Student Success
Keynote Speaker- Laura Cruz, Ph.D.: Asking New Questions in the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching
Facilitated Introductory Racial Healing Circle.
2021 - 2022 SoTL Winter Retreat: Building Connections and Belonging in the Classroom
Faculty panel discussing how they foster connections and belonging in their classrooms across all four modalities
Student panel discussing what makes them feel a sense of connection and belonging in their classes, by modality
2020-2021: Equity-Mindedness
2021 Winter Retreat: “A Time to Listen” Student Panel: Students share their perceptions
about equity and ambient belonging in the classroom
2020 Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: Xueli Wang, professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
Analysis at the University of Wisconsin- Madison
2017-2020: Creating a Culture of Persistence and Student Success
2020 Winter Retreat Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Enright, psychiatric clinical nurse
specialist in private practice in Peabody, MA
2019 Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: Pamela R. Edington, Ed.D., President of Dutchess
Community College and former faculty member and dean at Middlesex
2018 Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: Dr. Carlos Santiago, Commissioner of Higher Education
2017 Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: Bob Goodman, Executive Director, New Jersey Teaching & Learning Center
2016: Authentic Learning
Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: Alan November, leader in education technology
2015: The Changing Profile of the Middlesex Student
Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: eaching in a Global Society: Theresa Y. Austin, Ph.D., of UMASS-Amherst
Winter Retreat: Honoring Carol Cowan and Panel Discussion with former MCC (now current UML) students on their transformation from community college to a baccalaureate institution
2014: Teaching with Technology: Sound Pedagogy, Sane Time Commitment
Get Inspired! Keynote Speakers: Alicia Russell, Associate Director of CELT, Center for the Enhancement ofLearning & Teaching, Tufts University and Seth Merriam, Educational Technologist and Digital Media Developer, Harvard University
2013: What Motivates Students; Assessing Teaching Strategies
2012: Introduction to SoTL Projects; First Annual SoTL Get Inspired! Conference
Get Inspired! Keynote Speaker: John Warner, Ph.D., Founder and President, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, and Beyond Benign