Inclusive Teaching Institute for Graduate Students and Postdocs
Fall 2025 Institute
~ Registration now open for November 7, 2025 ~
The Inclusive Teaching Institute for Graduate Students & Postdocs invites you to reflect and connect with other graduate students and postdocs to share knowledge, explore how and why social identities come into play in the learning environment, consider how to remove barriers and increase accessibility, and create a plan to support the learning of all students.
How can you prepare to facilitate discussion when it’s personal, political, or charged? How do your past learning experiences inform your emergent practice, commitments, and professional development needs? What does education research say about how to support belonging? The institute is a place to get started or deepen your learning.
See full details on Center for Teaching Innovation website
When is the Inclusive Teaching Institute?
This program is an in-person retreat from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm on Friday, November 7, 2025, with a follow-up 90-minute online (Zoom) workshop the following week required to complete the program.
At registration, you will choose one option for your follow-up online workshop:
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Monday, November 10 (1:00-2:30pm ET)
- Tuesday, November 11 (9:30-11:00am or 1:00-2:30pm ET)
- Wednesday, November 12 (3:00-4:30pm ET)
Who can attend?
The Inclusive Teaching Institute is designed for graduate students and postdocs at Cornell University.
Application information
As space in the institute is limited, please register early to save a place. Register for November 2025
If you have any questions please contact Melina Ivanchikova (md734@cornell.edu) at the Center for Teaching Innovation or Colleen McLinn (futurefaculty@cornell.edu) at the Graduate School’s Future Faculty and Academic Careers program.
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending the institute, participants will be able to:
- use a framework to guide planning for inclusion
- select teaching strategies that foster engagement, belonging, and accessibility
- increase your confidence in facilitating an inclusive learning climate
Sponsorship
This event is sponsored by the Center for Teaching Innovation and the Graduate School’s Future Faculty and Academic Careers program.
Related Opportunities
The University-Wide GET SET Teaching Conference – The theme of the Center for Teaching Innovation’s April 22, 2023 Conference was Teaching Inclusively.
A Learning Community on Inclusive Teaching for Graduate Students and Postdocs offered in partnership with the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) and complementing the CTI’s June Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom online course.
Sessions were offered:
- June 2023
- June 2022
- June-July 2021
- October-November 2020
- June-July 2020