CFE Upcoming Programs

The Center for Faculty Excellence will host the following upcoming events.

Tuesdays, Sept. 10: Difficult Conversations: The Stories We Tell About Healthcare

This program is designed to engage faculty from all disciplines. Content narratives are primarily centered on clinical health sciences. The 55-word story is a branch of narrative medicine that is used to enhance well-being through improved levels of insight and emotional clarity, especially when presented with difficult situations with which faculty are often presented but have limited outlets to facilitate meaning or significance from these experiences. Example experiences include professionalism issues, racism, sexism and moral injury. The objective of this workshop is to teach faculty how to write a 55-word story and demonstrate how it can help with wellness and professional development. Read more and register in Bridge. 

Wednesday, Sept. 11: Generative AI Reading and Discussion Group

The Generative AI Reading Group will meet in-person (Zoom option for non-Omaha faculty/staff only) 2-3 times during the semester. Meetings will focus on discussion of some recent popular press/ general interest essays on generative AI, as well as some education-focused pieces on generative AI’s effect on teaching and learning. We will discuss the underlying issues with an eye to how they might change not only our assignments and assessments, but also our conceptions of what, how and why we teach. Sessions will be informal interactions on the model of a reading or discussion group, rather than presentations. Read more and register in Bridge.