Quiet Co-Working Hours in the Center For Teaching

Mondays- Fridays, 8 AM -10 AM and 2 PM - 4 PM

 

We are excited to announce a new initiative designed to bring together faculty and staff who want to make use of the Center For Teaching space as a gathering point on campus where we can work together and enjoy one another’s company. In addition to hosting formal workshops, panels, and events with faculty and with our wonderful partners across the campus, we want to return to one of the CfT’s original ideals, as expressed in the CfT Task Force’s 2015 report: a “commons for healthy intellectual interaction beyond the time­pressed and often conflictual floor of faculty meetings.” So whether you’re working on an article, meeting a colleague for an hour of accountability-grading, planning a professional-development program, or revamping your syllabus for next semester–it’s often very helpful to have a change of scenery–a spacious room full of natural light, where you can fix yourself a nice cup of coffee and make use of a large fresh whiteboard.

 

Swipe in with your ID card and be our guests! Right now, we’re reserving the space between 8-10 and between 2-4 on weekdays just for this purpose.

 

When you do, please sign our guest book (which we’ll set out by the candy bowl) and let us know when (and, if you like, how) you used the space. Please sign in whether or not you popped in during these new designated hours.

 

We’re hoping to find out (by your self-reports) what times are most useful to faculty and staff for quiet co-working, so that we can balance our calendar. We'd like the CfT space to be used as much as possible, and we want to continue to welcome colleagues–faculty and staff–who want to reserve the CfT for programs and events relating to professional development. The space should be useful not only for presenting the finished product–the research or teaching innovation you’re ready to show to colleagues–but also as a place for the thinking, drafting, sketching, mapping, and all other forms of work that go into (and alongside of) that finishing process. By signing in, you’ll help us make the best possible use of the CfT.