Name: Celebrating Pedagogical Innovation: Insights from Award-Winning Educators
Start: 2025-05-22T10:45:00-0500
End: 2025-05-22T11:30:00-0500

Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT

Lake Room

Join us for an insightful and multi-disciplinary panel discussion featuring winners of Northwestern’s University Teaching Awards, who exemplify excellence in undergraduate classroom teaching. Following Bowen’s keynote, we will delve further into the student-instructor connection. Panelists will describe their commitment to fostering student belonging and success. We will explore how these educators are leveraging innovative technologies, creating immersive learning experiences, and honing students’ critical thinking to grapple with wicked problems. Additionally, the panel will discuss effective strategies for driving meaningful assessment and student success. We will close the conversation with reflections on the importance of safeguarding instructor vitality and questions from the audience. Hosted by the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching and moderated by Senior Director, Jennifer Keys.

Moderators

Jennifer Keys

Senior Director, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching

Speakers

Mei-Ling Hopgood

William F. Thomas Professor, Northwestern University

Mei-Ling Hopgood is a freelance journalist and author of Lucky Girl and How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm. She has been a recipient of the National Headliner Best in Show, ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and several other investigative and enterprise... Read More →