The Center for Educational Excellence (CEE) is hosting Educational Excellence Week from April 14 through April 18, 2025. Educational Excellence Week provides an opportunity for Tarleton faculty and staff to share experiences that showcase the components of the faculty role and impacts made on students. Presentations with an audience participation component are highly encouraged. Faculty and staff are invited to submit presentations in the following categories (expand each for more information):

Teaching Excellence

Prior to 2021, these presentations occurred during the Excellence in Teaching (EIT) Conference. If you have a teaching idea or trick, or something you do in class (face-to-face or online) that engages your students, this is the category for you. We can learn so much from each other regarding the art and science of teaching.

Note: It is likely not appropriate for undergraduate students to present in this category, though graduate students with a teaching role are welcome.

Community-Engaged Learning (Service-Learning)

This category welcomes submissions about the community engagement & service-learning experiences faculty/staff have worked to embed for students. This is a great opportunity to showcase the impact of your work and build awareness about community engagement and service-learning.

Submissions in this category could include, but are not limited to:

  • Best practices in community engagement and/or service-learning
  • Developing and/or maintaining relationships with community partners
  • Assessing student learning outcomes in community engagement and/or service-learning projects
  • Implementing virtual/contactless opportunities for community engagement and/or service-learning activities

We recognize that this category overlaps with other submission categories and want to empower you to select the category that feels most appropriate to you.

Note: Students may be a part of the presentation to discuss the impact of community engagement and service-learning experiences but must be accompanied by a faculty leader.

Applied & Experiential Learning

The Applied & Experiential Learning category is intended for presentations about the hands-on and real-world experiences that faculty have developed to engaged students in active learning. This is a great opportunity to showcase the impact of your work and build awareness about applied and experiential learning.

Submission topics could include:

  • Student scholarly and creative activities
  • Student leadership opportunities
  • Student internship opportunities
  • Student service-learning projects*
  • Student cultural enrichment activities.

We recognize that this category overlaps with other submission categories and want to empower you to select the category that feels most appropriate to you.

Note: Students may be a part of the presentation to discuss the impact of applied and experiential learning experiences but must be accompanied by a faculty leader.

Special Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

This year, EE Week will feature a special topic category for faculty to showcase their work related to AI in the higher education setting.

Submission topics could include, but are not limited to:

  • Best practices & lessons learned related to implementing AI tools
  • Case studies
  • Impact of AI on access in higher education

Note: Students may be a part of the presentation to discuss the impact of AI from a student perspective, but must be accompanied by a faculty leader.

Faculty and staff may submit up to one presentation in each of the submission categories by submitting a new form for each category you wish to present in. Submissions to present are due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 28, 2025. Lead presenters will be notified of the event schedule at least two weeks prior to the event.

Submissions will be collected through Oxford Abstracts. If you have not used this program before, you will need to create a free account before you can access the submission form. You will receive communications regarding your submission at the email address you use to set up your account.

Submit a Presentation Proposal by March 6, 2025

All submissions require the following information:

  • All presenter names
  • All presenter email addresses
  • Short (two-sentence) biographies for each presenter
  • Presentation title
  • Presentation description
  • Presentation length (either 25 or 55 minutes including Q&A)
  • Presentation mode preference (Zoom or in-person)
  • Presentation date preference (Monday, April 8th or Thursday, April 11th)
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Online & In-Person Options

Educational Excellence Week will take place through a combination of in-person events/sessions (Stephenville and Forth Worth) as well as live virtual sessions (hosted in a Canvas Community that will be made available to the Tarleton community shortly before the event). Recorded sessions will be made available in the same Canvas Community in the weeks after the event concludes.

Do you have questions or concerns?

We understand that this event and its virtual format may lead to questions from our presenters and our audience. The following individuals are happy to assist you: