Teaching Cooperatives - Fall 2025
These faculty-led co-ops offer an opportunity to innovate pedagogy and other practices by exploring topics of shared interest with colleagues. They include many new topics related to emerging issues; allow for multi-semester discussion, application, and further research; and build and leverage faculty leadership and expertise.
The following is a schedule for the Fall 2025 teaching cooperatives, including Communities of Practice, Discussion Groups, and ULO Scholar meetings. We will update meeting dates and times as soon as the information is available.
Communities of Practice
Topic Facilitator(s) Schedule Location(s)
| Reading Apprenticeship: Deepening Our Practice | Rebecca Kersnar | September 25th, October 9th, October 23rd, November 6th, and November 20th from 1:00 - 2:00 PM and the second option: every other Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 PM starting October 8th |
Zoom |
| Culturally Responsive Teaching (Hybrid) (Lecturers only) | Yhashika Lee, George Station, Salina Lopez, and Ibrahim Shelton | TBA |
TBA |
| Developing AI-Enhanced Instruction & Course Activities | Chris Beem | Thursday, Sept. 18, Thursday, October 2, Thursday, October 16, Thursday, October 30, & Thursday, November 13, from 2:00-2:50 PM |
Zoom |
| Service and Self-/Community Care | Chrissy Hernandez and Jennifer Lovell | Thursday, Oct 16, Thursday, Nov 5, Thursday, Nov 13, Thursday, Dec 11, and Thursday, Dec 18, from 12:30-1:30 PM |
Zoom |
| Equity-Minded Pedagogy | Renee Penalver |
Monday, September 29: Course opens Friday, October 3, 3:30-4:00 PM: Optional course orientation and technology overview Friday, October 10, 2:00-4:00 PM: Required Friday, October 17, 2:00-4:00 PM: Required Friday, October 24, 2:00-4:00 PM: Optional data session Friday, November 7, 2:00-4:00 PM: Required Friday, November 14, 2:00-4:00 PM: Required Friday, November 21, 2:00-3:00 PM: Optional office hours Friday, December 5: Final deadline for all assignments; course closes |
Zoom |
Discussion Groups
Topic Facilitator(s) Schedule Location(s)
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Jr. Tenure-Track Faculty Support & Networking (Tenure-track faculty only) |
Kelsey Nordstrom, Jimmy Guilinger, Sam Ogden, Jill Talley, and Renee Penalver | October 10th, 3:00-4:00 PM. Three other meeting times TBD. |
Zoom |
| Building Community Through Dialogue | Vivian Waldrup-Patterson and Rebecca Kersnar | Monday, October 13th (Asynchronous) Wednesday, October 29th - 9:00-9:50 AM Wednesday, November 12th - 9:00-9:50 AM Wednesday, December 3rd - 9:00-9:50 AM Wednesday, December 17th - 9:00-9:50 AM |
Zoom |
| Critical Digital Pedagogy Learning Series (Faculty, Staff, & Administration Welcome) | George Station and Special Guests | TBA |
TBA |
| Writers' & Artists' Salon | Shannon Snapp | Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 PM starting 10/8/2025 | Zoom |
| Pedagogy, Scholarship, & Career Development Workshop | Rixing Lou, Cate Liu, and Alexis Lee | Friday, October 24th, Friday, November 7th, Friday, November 14th, and Friday, December 5th |
Zoom |
| Practices in COIL Global Dialogs |
Ondine Gage |
Quick check in meeting: 10/16/2025 from 4:30-5:00 PM; Panel Presentations: 10/30/2025 3:30-5:00 PM; 12/5/2025 3:00-4:30 PM |
Watch TLA News for location |
| Faculty & Staff Spanish Conversation Group |
Susana Garcia |
1st meeting is on October 15th 12:00-1:15 PM *We will select future meeting dates based on particpants availability. |
El Centro |
ULO Coordinators - Spring 2025 Schedule
If you want to join a ULO Scholar group, please get in touch with TLA Director Vivian Waldrup-Patterson at vwaldrup-patterson@csumb.edu.
ULO Topic Facilitator(s) Schedule Location(s)
| ULO1-Oral Communication (GE A1) | Lee Ritscher |
2/20/2025, 3/13/2025, 4/17/2025 12:00-1:00 PM |
Email leritscher@csumb.edu for location |
| ULO1-Written Communication (GE A2) | Kelly Medina-Lopez |
TBD |
Email kmedina-lopez@csumb.edu for location |
| ULO1-Critical Thinking (GE A3) | Patrick Belanger | Sept 16, 2:00-2:45 PM Sept 30, 2:00-2:45 PM Oct 14, 2:00-2:45 PM Nov 4, 2:00-2:45 PM Nov 18, 2:00-2:45 PM |
Email pbelanger@csumb.edu for location |
| ULO1-Information Literacy | Sarah Dahlen | Friday, 9/26, 2:00-2:50 PM, Friday, 10/10, 2:00-2:50 PM, Friday, 11/14, 2:00-2:50 PM | Email sdahlen@csumb.edu for location |
| ULO1-Quantitative Reasoning | Peri Shereen | Friday, October 24th 2:00-2:50 PM, Friday, November 14th 3:00-3:50 PM, and Friday, December 12th 2:00-2:50 PM | Email pshereen@csumb.edu for location |
| ULO2-Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility | Hojin Song | 9/19 9:00-10:00 AM, 10/10 9:00-10:00 AM, 10/31 9:00-10:00 AM, 12/5 9:00-10:00 AM, and async work in between | Email hosong@csumb.edu for location |
| ULO3-Integrative Knowledge | Amanda Pullum | Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 PM October 8: Introduction to Integrative Knowledge October 22: IK assessment at CSUMB November 5: Closing the loop on 2025 IK assessment November 19: Refining IK assessment tools December 3: Refining IK assessment tools (con’t) and prep for spring |
Email apullum@csumb.edu for location |
ULO Coordinator Topic Descriptions
ULO Topic Description
| ULO1-Oral Communication (GE A1) | Discussion of bias in assessment and how to avoid it. |
| ULO1-Written Communication (GE A2) | TBD |
| ULO1-Critical Thinking (GE A3) | Our first meeting was spent discussing the interface of critical thinking & AI. We discussed what faculty are doing in their classes, and what guidance they are offering students. The remaining meetings will focus on creating a digital platform to house useful teaching materials related to CT. This builds on work completed in Spring 2025. |
| ULO1-Information Literacy | Still under development, but probably making some revisions to existing documents (e.g. rubric guide) based on S25 revisions to the IL rubric. Also starting to think of assessment questions for summer 2026. |
| ULO1-Quantitative Reasoning | TBD |
| ULO2-Personal, Professional, and Social Responsibility | Continue working on ULO2 Training modules. |
| ULO3-Integrative Knowledge | Continue to fine-tune assignment wrappers for GE assessment. |
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