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2025-26

The program of events for the current events already scheduled can be found below. Events are added throughout the year, so check back often. Suggestions for topics or speakers are always welcome. 

If you require accommodations for equal access to any of the events below, please contact the Office of Accessibility Services via email at access@geneseo.edu, or call 585-245-5112 at least one week prior to the event.

Have a topic you'd really like to work more with that isn't listed here, or a speaker you'd like to hear from? Let the TLC know: tlc@geneseo.edu. We value your input! 

CAT Madness

Take a moment to appreciate some cat friends of the TLC. You can learn more about , as well. 

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Completed Programs & Materials

Summer 2025

Tues. 8/12, 2pm. TLC Countdown to Fall: Ungrading Discussion

As you're putting plans together for courses in Fall 2025 and beyond, what ideas do you have about your grading schemes? Have you considered "ungrading," contract grading, or any other alternatives to traditional A-E letter grades to assess student learning?

This conversation will present several models for grading practices that break the focus away from point or letter values, and instead focus on student growth and development of learning and content mastery over time.

All are welcome to participate. If you've tried any type of ungrading or contract grading yourself, please share what you did and how it went. If you're considering it, share your initial ideas and get feedback on how to implement them successfully. If you've never considered it, share why and how you get the most value out of the system you use now. We can all learn from one another's experiences. 

Presented by Alexis Clifton, Director of the TLC. 

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Thurs. 8/7, 2pm. TLC Common Read Book Group for Faculty & Staff: What If We Get It Right?

Join colleagues for a discussion centered around the 2025-26 Geneseo Common Read selection, What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (2024). This positive read supports the Geneseo Ideas That Matter focus on climate change and individual action this year.

Our summer break reading group will meet virtually, in order to expand access. We will only meet once, to accommodate busy summer schedules.  

Goals for this conversation include discussing the contents of the book itself, as well as how it applies to our mission, values, and instruction at Geneseo. Where might pieces of this book inform your own practices for yourself or your students in the coming year?

This invitation is open to all. You do not need to have finished the book in order to join us in the meeting. 

• - website packed with supportive material for this book
• First Year Reading Guide available through . Look for "guides" tab link in the second block of the page.
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Thurs. 8/7, 12pm. Co-Curricular Content Development for Ideas That Matter

Ideas that Matter was initiated by the Provost's Office in 2023-2024 as a way to engage the campus and beyond in liberal arts teaching and learning. Learning occurs in formal and informal settings across the campus and is always intentional and structured. This workshop, offered 3 times throughout the summer, will discuss what Ideas that Matter is, provide background on the theme for 2025-2026 (Climate Change & the Individual), and then guide participants through the process of developing an action plan for how they will engage students in Ideas That Matter from their own lens of expertise.

Thurs. 8/7, 10am. Basics of Qualtrics

Qualtrics is now available to the campus community for research purposes and can also be used for assessment surveys when more advanced features (than those available in Google and Microsoft forms) are needed. In this 1-hour virtual workshop learn the basics of Qualtrics and create your own mini-survey with branching logic.

This event is presented by the Geneseo Qualtrics Implementation Team, and facilitated by Matt Pastizzo, Director for Institutional Research & Effectiveness.

Access Qualtrics via MyGeneseo.

Wednesdays, 12pm. Recurring: Wednesday "Crafternoons"

Spend some fun time with colleagues this summer building community through crafting.

We'll gather in the lobby of Erwin to work on whatever portable crafting projects you're entertaining yourselves with these days. Knitting, crochet, and embroidery come to mind, but we're open to anything that engages your creativity and allows you to carry on a conversation while you work (if you wish).

Don't have any craft projects currently? Not to worry. We'll have supplies on hand and friendly advice to share if you want to try something new. Or just sit, chat, and admire what your coworkers are up to. Open to all campus community members.

As claims, "Creating stuff is good for your brain." Our campus is full of , both in the classroom and beyond. Let's engage our hands and our brains together this summer.

Brown-bag lunches are welcome.