Join us every Friday during the semester for a delicious pizza lunch and an engaging topic related to the latest in teaching and learning! Can't make it in person? No problem! Register on Campus Groups and you'll receive a Zoom link to join us virtually (you'll have to provide your own pizza, however!). Relax, make connections with colleagues across campus, and learn a thing or two with UCITE!
Spring Semester 2026 Topics
All Pizza & Pedagogy sessions are held on Fridays from 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM in the Herrick Room on the first floor of Allen Memorial Medical Library.
Creating and Maintaining Productive Class and Learning Environments
Start the semester by creating and sharing class expectations with students. Setting a productive tone for learning begins in the first two weeks. A little planning now can continue to support respectful learning spaces throughout the semester.
We are encouraging all faculty to attend the Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation! There will be no Pizza & Pedagogy today.
Anthony Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center, which serves first-generation students and focuses on student success and inclusion, and he is an associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University.
As author of The Privileged Poor and Class Dismissed, Jack—once a low-income, first-generation college student himself—details how class divides on campus create barriers to academic and career success, and shares what schools can do to truly level the playing field.
UCITE Book Club
AI-Aware Instruction
Using and Assessing Student Peer Review
UCITE Book Club
TOTEs Conversations
Failure as a Learning Tool
No session today - Spring Break!
UCITE Book Club
What is Experiential Learning and Why Does it Matter?
AI-Aware Writing Instruction
TBA
UCITE Book Club
Reunion and Teaching Forward
Past Topics
- Starting Successfully: Reaching Students to Teach Students
- How Do I Read This?! Giving Your Students Tools for College Reading and Decoding
- Book Club: Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom by Jessamyn Neuhaus, 2025
- Book Club: The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Brookfield & Preskill, 2016
- Coping with Course Evaluation Trauma: Working with Peers to Improve Teaching
- How Can I Reach and Teach Students Who Are Struggling?
- Starting the Semester Successfully: Syllabus and Course/Class Sequence
- Student Feedback: Collecting, Acknowledging, and Learning from Student Perceptions
- Context Matters: What You Need to Know Before You Start Teaching a Course
- Teaching Matters: Start Writing Your Teaching Philosophy Statement
- Civil Discourse: Part 1, Planning Ahead
- Civil Discourse: Part 2, Facilitating Student Conversations
- Civil Discourse: Part 3, Managing Discourse in Crisis
- Who and What? GenAI in Teaching and Learning
- When and How? Assessing Student Writing in the Age of AI
- Why and How? Why Engage with AI and How Will AI Tools Continue to Impact Higher Education?
- You Have a TA - Now What?
- The Academic Job Search
- Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Teaching and Learning
- How to Create a High Structure Course to Enhance Student Learning
- Mentoring Success with Undergraduate Students
- Mentoring Success with Graduate Students
- Designing Your Course as an "Instructor of Record"
- Teamwork in Classroom Instruction
- Where's the Professor? Navigating Students' Perceptions of Young Professors