Upcoming Events
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Presenter: Lee Bitsóí and Adam Beaver
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
NB: This event has been canceled.
What is mentoring? How is it similar to advising, supervising, or coaching? How is it different? What does it look like to provide it (and receive it) with grace and understanding—especially across cultures?
As Brandeis faculty, we participate in a various mentoring relationships or other relational situations where mentoring could occur. Whether you are a mentor to junior colleagues, postdocs, graduate or undergraduate students, or a mentee in your current role, you have developed a number of intuitions from your experiences, about what works, what doesn’t work, and the kind of mentor and mentee you would like to be. What you may not have had is an opportunity to connect with peers and reflect on your experiences together in ways that allow you to move beyond your intuitions to explore shared frameworks and theories about effective and inspirational mentoring. <br />
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Accordingly, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Access and Excellence are offering this interactive, 75-minute workshop designed to guide our faculty to become more intentional about how to establish trust, set expectations, as well as give and receive feedback in mentoring relationships.
This offering of the workshop is designed for faculty in the School of Business and Economics. Additional offerings for faculty in Brandeis' other schools are scheduled for September-November.
Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Sign up to receive email updates about this Learning Community!
Date: Friday, January 23, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, January 30, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, February 6, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, February 13, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, February 20, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, February 27, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, March 6, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, March 13, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, March 20, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, April 3, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, April 10, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, April 17, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register
Date: Friday, May 1, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors animated by the unique opportunities and challenges that come with teaching first-year college students are encouraged to join this group. In our sessions, we will: discuss shared readings of common interest; invite colleagues from around campus specialized in working with new students; and talk through case studies drawn from real classroom situations. Register
Date: Friday, May 8, 2026
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Gardner Jackson, Mezzanine level of Goldfarb Library
Faculty who would like to join a community of fellow instructors dedicated to exploring and experimenting with pedagogical uses of generative AI are encouraged to join this group. Sessions will include a mix of show-and-tell, as participants and special guests demonstrate assignments, chatbots, and other AI workflows they are developing for their courses, and discussion of readings, as we attempt to reason through and develop some best practices for our respective disciplines and schools. Register