Message from the Vice-Provost
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I hope you’ve all been enjoying the spring weather! May has brought many professional development opportunities, from funding and fellowship sessions to teaching and learning symposia, all aimed at helping us prepare for the upcoming academic year. We look forward to supporting your innovations. Stay tuned for our June newsletter, which will include a call for LEAF Expressions of Interest.
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Teaching Awards & Grants
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U of T Teaching Grants Workshop
Thursday, June 26, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. via Microsoft Teams
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Are you interested in learning about teaching and learning funding opportunities available to U of T faculty and staff? Join us for a 90-minute workshop that provides a general overview of four major institutional teaching and learning grants:
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We will describe opportunities available through these funds and share proposal writing tips, key criteria for successful applications and practical strategies to strengthen your submission. We hope to see you there!
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Congratulations to the 2025 Teaching Assistants' Training Program (TATP) Award Recipients!
This year's TATP Teaching Excellence Award winners include:
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BIPOC TA Teaching Excellence Award
Anna Galang, Chemistry, FAS
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TA Teaching Excellence Awards
Zaheer Kazi Coutinho, Biological Sciences, UTSC
Vanbasten de Araújo, Women and Gender Studies Institute, FAS
Alyssa Kelly, Health and Society, UTSC
Joseph McLaughlin, English, FAS
Christine Nguyen, Cell and Systems Biology, FAS
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CI Teaching Excellence Award
Donald McCarthy, Classics, FAS
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Congratulations to U of T's 3M National Teaching Fellow!
Stavroula Andreopoulos, Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, has been named a 3M National Teaching Fellow. The Fellowship honours exceptional contributions to teaching and learning at the post-secondary level. Congratulations Professor Andreopoulos!
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Learning & Education Advancement Fund (LEAF) in the News
The Toronto Climate Summer School, a 2022 LEAF Impact project, was recently featured in Arts & Science News:
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Teaching & Learning
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CEL Staff Network Meeting: Student Preparation & Orientations
The CEL Staff Network holds bi-monthly meetings for staff who support community-engaged Learning (CEL) or community-partnered EL across the tri-campus. Join CEL for the June meeting to connect and exchange ideas on the topic of student preparation and orientation, facilitated by Heather Hermant, Lead Coordinator, Academic Initiatives at the Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP).
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Building applied research skills into experiential learning courses: How U of T Libraries can support you
Tuesday, June 17, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. via Microsoft Teams
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This informative workshop is facilitated by librarians and faculty with long-standing collaborations on applied learning courses. Designed for instructors teaching courses with experiential or applied research elements, this session highlights curricular supports and collaborative best practices for library engagement to make your course a success.
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Updated Quercus Data Insights Winter 2025 Data: Inform Your Course Planning through Student Activity
The University's Learning Analytics Initiative offers a series of dashboards designed to visualize course-level student activity data from Quercus (“Quercus Data Insights”). These dashboards provide instructors with valuable insights into student engagement and behaviour in their courses. Dashboards are currently available with data from past courses for the period from September 2022 to Winter 2025.Get started by requesting access to the dashboard here.
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New Resource from SGS – Guidance for Graduate Units: Promoting Teaching Opportunities for Doctoral Students
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Teaching experiences are an important part of graduate education, helping students build transferable skills, enhance career opportunities, and find professional fulfillment.
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The School of Graduate Studies has released new guidance to assist graduate faculty, program administrators, and supervisors in creating and supporting meaningful teaching opportunities for doctoral students. Graduate students may also find the list of central resources especially useful. Please share within your departments.
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Working with students: experiential learning avenues
As an instructor or staff member at the University of Toronto, you have access to a range of experiential learning avenues that will allow you to engage students in advancing your own work, while providing students with meaningful learning experiences. These avenues may be paid or unpaid, and may take place within curricular or co-curricular settings. A new article on the Experiential Learning Hub has been published to provide guidance for those interested in exploring these opportunities.
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Call for Applications: Community-Engaged Learning Faculty Fellowship Program
The CCP seeks applications for its Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) Faculty Fellowship Program. The Fellowship recognizes and supports innovative instructors who plan to develop new, or enhance existing, CEL courses. The Fellowship provides an opportunity for pedagogical development and recognizes educational leadership through a model that partners emerging CEL instructors with senior fellows who have demonstrated excellence in CEL and in supporting colleagues newer to CEL.
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CEWIL Canada's iHUB Call for Proposals
CEWIL Canada's 2025-R2 iHUB Call for Proposals is open. This funding opportunity supports projects that advance innovation in Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), extend access to WIL and ensure delivery meets appropriate quality and learning standards for students.
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Generative AI
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Register for the next AI Roundup - Emerging Trends
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Tuesday, May 27, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. via Microsoft Teams
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Thursday, June 12, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. via Microsoft Teams
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Please note registration for the June 12 session opens on May 28
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Each month, Vice-Provost Susan McCahan hosts a session intended to sort through the vast amount of information about AI advances, sharing a few key items of interest to the U of T community. The hope is that it will help people stay abreast of emerging changes that will potentially impact work at the institution. The recording and links from previous AI Roundups can be found on our SharePoint site. All U of T faculty, librarians and staff who would find this content helpful are welcome to attend.
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OVPIUE Presents
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2024 LEAF+ Equitable and Inclusive Teaching
At the CTSI Teaching & Learning Symposium earlier this month, the OVPIUE co-hosted a Teaching Dialogue session on Engaging Students in Advancing Equitable and Inclusive Teaching that featured 5 LEAF+ projects. This session focused on how instructors engaged students to foster student-centered innovation while advancing equitable and inclusive teaching objectives. We would like to express our gratitude to our faculty speakers: Jessica Dere, Judith Poë, Olivier St-Cyr, Rebecca Laposa, and Sanja Hinić-Frlog.
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OVPIUE Team Update
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Welcome Kevin Nitièma!
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We are pleased to welcome Kevin Nitièma to the OVPIUE as a Data Analyst, Student Success. Kevin brings a multidisciplinary background in educational analytics, student engagement and program design. Prior to joining the OVPIUE, his work focused on residence curriculum assessment and evaluation, where he led a team of student staff who applied design thinking frameworks and data-driven strategies to enhance engagement and assess student learning outcomes. In his current role, Kevin supports the analysis and reporting of student success metrics and contributes to advancing data-informed innovations across the undergraduate experience. Please join us in welcoming Kevin to the team.
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