Engaging Guest Speaker Comes to Campus with Support from a TIPS Teaching Innovation Grant
TIPS Teaching Innovation Grants Contribute to Engaging Student Experience
Lia Schraeder, PhD | TIPS Jul 9, 2024
In the Division of Teaching Innovation & Program Strategy (TIPS) we are dedicated to supporting and celebrating innovative teaching at CU Denver. One major way we hope to contribute to faculty innovation in teaching is with our Teaching Innovation Grants (TIG). Every semester we invite faculty from all academic disciplines, ranks, and appointments, to apply for grant money to support their teaching and technology innovation, inclusive teaching, and professional learning. In this blog, we recognize the work of one recent grant recipient, History Professor Dr. Steven Vose.
Dr. Vose applied for the Teaching Innovation Grant in the fall 2023 and was awarded the teaching innovation grant in the spring 2024. He used the grant to fund a visit from Dr. Moyukh Chatterjee, a Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities (Duke University Press, 2023).
On Monday, April 22, Dr. Chatterjee delivered a lecture to the university community and the next day he participated in a discussion session with students in Dr. Vose’s course, “The Past and Future of Nonviolence” (HIST 5003; HIST/RLST/ETST/INST/PHIL 3003). The Monday evening event drew an audience of around 50 people, including students from numerous disciplines, faculty, administrators, neighboring universities, and the general public. An additional 25 students benefited from spending class time with Dr. Chatterjee, including guests from his other two courses, “Foundations of International Studies” (INTS 2020) and a new course, “Modern India: Empire, Colony, Nation.” Both events generated lively discussion and Q&A; Dr. Vose pointed to evidence of enthusiastic student participation in the fact that “we extended the time on both occasions!”
At the end of the Past and Future of Nonviolence course, Dr. Vose held a discussion session with the students to review how the course went. Students were overwhelmingly positive about reading Dr. Chatterjee’s book. Many said that having the chance to talk with him about it was one of the major highlights of the course; several others shared that it changed the way they think about what academic research and writing can do to make an impact in our world.
To learn more about TIPS Teaching Innovation Grants and when and how to apply in the next cycle, check out our website: https://www.ucdenver.edu/tips/teaching-innovations/teaching-innovation-grant.