Spotlight on Innovative CMU Teaching

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Online

What innovative teaching strategies are your colleagues using?

Through presentations and lively, informal roundtable discussions, this series highlights innovative, transferable methods CMU faculty, postdoc and graduate student instructors are using to enhance student learning.

Speakers will highlight transferable examples applied in various disciplines. Attendees can expect to dialogue with colleagues and leave with practical strategies they can implement in their own classrooms.

Register online to receive the Zoom link.

Hosted by the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation

Staff Council General Body Meeting

Thursday, Dec. 12, noon to 1 p.m., Online

Staff Council General Body Meetings are open to all CMU staff members. Staff Council provides a forum for staff to voice concerns, make recommendations and propose new ideas. Elected representatives work closely with university administration to address issues and develop best solutions for the majority. Great things can happen when we focus our efforts!

Staff Council committees are open to any interested CMU staff member and include Communication, Food Drive, Kennywood & Entertainment Discounts, DEI+B, Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work, Sustainability and Wellness.

The meeting schedule and Zoom link are available on the Staff Council website.

Staff Book Discussion: Ink & Insights

Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, 3 to 4 p.m., Dean's Office Conference Room (Baker 154R)

Registration Deadline: Dec. 13

Dietrich College staff are invited to a lively discussion about the book How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive by Jennifer Brown. Through storytelling techniques, the author works to make diversity and inclusion inclusive of everyone. The goal is to help those who have felt irrelevant to diversity and inclusion conversations — or even alienated by them — positively contribute to creating workplaces of greater mutual understanding, compassion and affirmation that profit from the talents of everyone.

Registration is capped at 15.

Books provided by the publisher.

Register by Dec. 13

Nominate a Student for the 2024-2025 Plaut Award

Deadline: Dec. 20, 2024

Daniel M. Plaut Student Opportunity Fund was established in honor of Daniel Plaut by Marlene Behrmann, David Plaut and their family and friends. Totaling approximately $2,500, the award provides one or two humanities and social sciences students each year with dedicated mentoring and funded opportunities for professional development in their field of interest. The award is meant to identify students for whom dedicated support would open doors and provide opportunities which otherwise would not be as readily available to them.

Eligible students should be in their second year at Dietrich College and preference will go to those students who have not had prior experience or opportunities to engage in professional development 

Nominations are due Dec. 20, 2024. Please nominate students using the PDF form and submit it to dietrichdean@andrew.cmu.edu. 

Winter Break Special Event

Wednesday, Dec. 4, 5 to 7 p.m., Posner Grand Room (Posner 340)

Join the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST), the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics (LCAL) and the Department of Philosophy for food, hot cocoa, mulled wine, snacks, music, movies and more!

RSVP by Nov. 27.

Master's Student Support Group

Mondays, 4-5 p.m., Highmark Center for Health, Wellness and Athletics Group Room

The Master’s Student Support Group provides an opportunity for students to come together and discuss the unique experiences and challenges of being a Master’s student. 

To join this group, please email co-facilitator Adrijana Vukelic, MSCP, at avukelic@andrew.cmu.edu or call 412-268-2922 to schedule your pre-group consultation. This consultation is an opportunity to make sure the space will meet your needs and to answer any questions you may have.

Ph.D. Support Group

Mondays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Virtual