Arissa Oh speaks animatedly to a class of students

Scholarly Reflections on Teaching

Scholarly Reflections on Teaching is a faculty speaker series that asks individual faculty to unpack the various sources 鈥� disciplinary expertise, careful observation of student learning, scholarship on teaching, attentiveness to their own experience, etc. 鈥� that inform their pedagogical practice and spur creative experimentation in teaching. Each year, the CTE partners with different campus stakeholders to bring together speakers on a particular theme.

Read, Think, Talk: Reinvigorating the Fundamentals of the Liberal Arts

The liberal arts tradition is a cornerstone of higher education, and many faculty continue to feel deeply committed to the skills, values, and scholarly orientations it espouses. Alongside that commitment, changing contexts and challenges 鈥� including聽 barriers to students鈥� sustained engagement with texts, academic risk-taking, sense of belonging, etc. 鈥斅� are pushing faculty to get clearer about what is fundamental about the liberal arts tradition and why it continues to matter to them and to their students. Inspired by a course of the same name envisioned by a 蜜桃传媒 faculty member, the 鈥淩ead, Think, Talk鈥� series will feature 蜜桃传媒 faculty reflections about how their interpretation of the liberal arts has changed and their experiments intended to recenter the liberal arts in their varied and shifting classroom contexts.

Part of the Center for Teaching Excellence鈥檚 Scholarly Reflections on Teaching program, and organized in partnership with the Institute for the Liberal Arts, this year鈥檚 series meets monthly over lunch and concludes with a late afternoon reception in March. Find more information and registration links for individual sessions below, and email centerforteaching@bc.edu with any questions.

Fall 2026 Speakers

Jeremy Evans (CSOM): The How and Why of Liberal Arts Education

Thursday, September 29, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)

Virginia Reinburg (History): The Human Classroom

Monday, October 19, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)

Jenna Tonn (Engineering): Human-Centered Engineering and the Liberal Arts

Wednesday, November 4, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)

Spring 2027 Speakers

Can Erbil (Economics): Teaching Economics and the Human Judgement in the Age of AI

Wednesday, February 3, 12:00 - 1:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)

Krithika Vachali (English): Trust and the Liberal Arts Classroom

Thursday, March 18, 4:00 - 5:15 pm
CTE Innovation Lab (O'Neill 250)

Past Speakers

Back To Top