Contract Faculty Community of Practice

This is a multi-access event. Are you concerned about academic integrity and the best practices for supporting student learning? Have you found the workload involved in academic concessions to be increasingly challenging? Are you aware of or are using Early Alert? This workshop will address these and other teaching concerns. Please come to our hybrid […]

This is a multi-access event. The Contract Faculty Community of Practice invites you to a Marking Party. Come and join your fellow contract faculty members in a quiet room where we can all concentrate on our grading as we prepare to return term papers and final assignments to our students. Although this will be a […]

Multi-access The use of A.I. in many aspects of our lives has become the topic of the day. At all levels of education, particularly in higher education, the concerns about the use of A.I., academic integrity and the effect on deep learning continue to grow. Colleges and universities are scrambling to formulate policies to address […]

Multi-access The end of term brings many hours of grading final assignments, which can be overwhelming and isolating. Why not come and spend some of your grading hours in the company of your contract faculty colleagues in our last Community of Practice event of 2023? We’ll have a large, light-filled and quiet room, snacks, a […]

Multi-access This CoP session will describe how the Social Impacts Lab Toolkit developed by the Centre for Community Engaged Learning was applied to a 4th year engineering design course to support student engagement with their community-based project partners.  The session will include examples of lessons and assignments developed using the toolkit, as well as an […]

Multi-access The Contract Faculty Colloquium has been convened for Contract Faculty at UBCV and UBCO for several years, and aims to bring together Contract Faculty from across campuses to showcase and share their intellectual work with other colleagues. This year’s 9th Annual Colloquium will feature papers by Contract Faculty colleagues from a range of disciplines. […]