CTLFS Workshops & Professional Events

The Center for Teaching, Learning and Faculty Success invites faculty, staff, and administrators to join these conversations, collaborations, and workshops to support your personal and professional growth as vital members of Sac State. The CTLFS is committed to opening space - in-person and virtually - to discuss pedagogical and scholarly topics, and to collaborate with campus partners across departments and divisions to develop strategies for enhancing and growing as practitioners and scholars.

If you have a workshop, activity, FLC or PLC you'd like to facilitate, contact us at ctlfs@csus.edu or drop by AIRC 3005.

For questions about accessibility or to request reasonable accommodations, please contact us at ctlfs@csus.edu at least five (5) business days in advance or as soon as possible.

Open Call for Proposals on Pedagogies and Counter Pedagogies on GenAI

The CTLFS invites faculty to share a perspective, teaching practice, or a workshop on exploring pedagogy in the era of generative AI. As AI increasingly shapes education, work, and everyday life, recent legislation has emphasized AI literacy, transparency, privacy, and responsible use. Presentations may explore pedagogical uses of GenAI as well as counter-pedagogical approaches that question, resist, limit, or offer alternatives to its use. Faculty may share interdisciplinary innovations, critical reflections, or short workshops examining how GenAI is shaping, and being challenged within, teaching philosophies and classroom practices.

These 90-minute workshops will be held on Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m in a Lunch and Learn format. The CTLFS will provide lunch at every session selected from the proposals.

Presenters will receive $250 (additional employment or professional development funds) for their work designing and facilitating their session.

Apply by October 5th, 2026

As AI increasingly shapes education, work, and everyday life, recent legislation has emphasized AI literacy, transparency, privacy, and responsible use. California SB 928 reinforces the importance of the human role in higher education by requiring CSU instructors of record and faculty employees to be people, while allowing AI to serve as a supporting tool.

Higher education must also address concerns related to bias, misinformation, academic integrity, equitable access, and student learning. Presentations may explore pedagogical uses of GenAI as well as counter-pedagogical approaches that question, resist, limit, or offer alternatives to its use. Faculty may share interdisciplinary innovations, critical reflections, or short workshops examining how GenAI is shaping, and being challenged within, teaching philosophies and classroom practices.

How is GenAI shaping or challenging your teaching philosophy or classroom practices?
How are you discussing the use, limitations, or rejection of GenAI with students?
How have you revised an assignment, assessment, or course activity in response to GenAI?
What concerns, tensions, or opportunities related to GenAI have emerged in your discipline?
How are you addressing issues such as academic integrity, bias, privacy, accessibility, equitable access, or environmental impact?
What teaching approaches preserve human connection, critical thinking, creativity, and meaningful learning?
How can faculty prepare students to engage with GenAI critically and responsibly?

CTLFS anticipates selecting four to six proposals for the series.
Each selected session may be facilitated by an individual faculty member or a faculty team.
Lunch & Learn sessions will be limited up to 20 participants to support meaningful discussion and engagement.
Each session will be in person, on a Thursday and will last approximately 90 min.

Selected presenters will work with an instructional designer and the CTLFS lead to refine their session content and coordinate delivery and logistics. Presenters will also create a one-to-two-page handout highlighting key information, strategies, or resources related to their topic presentation. The handout will be shared with participants and may later be posted on the CTLFS website as a resource for the broader campus community.

Sessions will be offered every two to three weeks from mid-October through the end of April and should encourage participants to reflect on how GenAI is shaping or challenging their pedagogy and classroom practices.

Relevance to pedagogy or counter-pedagogy in the era of GenAI
Clarity and focus of the proposed topic
Opportunities for faculty engagement, dialogue, and reflection
Practical value across disciplines
Contribution to a range of perspectives throughout the series

Fall 2026 QM and AI free Training Opportunities

Greetings CSU Faculty & Staff,

See below the Fall 2026 QM & AI Free Training Opportunities. All courses are asynchronous & facilitated by CSU faculty & staff

Learn more about the courses and access the course syllabi & testimonials.

Limit one course per semester.

Courses offered include:

Improving Your Online Course
AI Tools For Teaching & Learning (For Faculty/Lecturers)
AI Tools for Higher-Ed Professionals/Staff

REGISTER HERE

Questions? Please reach out to ocs@calstate.edu.

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