Save the Date: Annual Learning and Teaching Colloquium 2025
Mark your calendars for the second Annual Learning and Teaching Colloquium on Friday, September 12, 2025. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, this year’s colloquium will explore how Evergreen’s distinctive pedagogical approaches serve our mission as a public institution.
Why Attend?
- Create meaningful faculty connections outside the time crunch of teaching
- Engage in substantive dialogue about Evergreen’s distinctive pedagogical traditions
- Enjoy a catered lunch courtesy of the Washington Center.
- Dedicate (paid) time to reflect on and enhance your teaching practice
- Receive a $125 stipend for your participation
Open to ALL Faculty
This event is open to ALL faculty members at Evergreen – whether you teach in teams, solo, full-time, part-time, or as an adjunct. The Faculty Experience Survey highlighted our collective desire for more community building and teaching support—this event directly addresses those needs.
Event Format
- Morning: Welcome from Provost, plenary by Sara Gardner, designer and director of Bellevue College’s nationally recognized Navigators program (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)
- Catered lunch for networking and informal conversations (12:00 PM – 1:30 PM)
- Afternoon: Neurodiversity workshop by Cole Whitaker OR Planning Time (1:30 PM – 4:00 PM)
Space is limited to 60 participants. Please RSVP at your earliest convenience.
Questions or suggestions? Contact learningandteaching@evergreen.edu.
Your hosts,
John Caraher, Dean of Faculty
JuliA Metzker, Director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education
