The Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching (CELT) provides pedagogy workshops and seminars, book clubs, one-on-one consultations, a lending library, and assistance with teaching portfolios to faculty.
Faculty, includes full time, part time, tenure and non-tenure track positions, grad teaching assistants, and adjuncts who are currently or will be teaching at the wide range of campus locations and programs.
The proposed programs listed below are subject to change to reflect the needs and desires of Tulane’s faculty.
CELT is committed to fulfill it's Core Purpose:
To create meaningful learning through exceptional teaching.
CELT and the Innovative Learning Center is located in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, 7001 Freret Street, New Orleans, La [3rd Floor, Suite 300].
Open to faculty to reserve. View reservation guidelines.
CELT, in partnership with IT’s Innovative Learning Center (ILC), are hosting Fall 2025 Office Hours.
Teach Anywhere Office Hours
These are open office hours for faculty to meet with the CELT and ILC staff. We will be holding consulting hours for you to drop in online and work with us directly on your course content.
Office Hours | Mondays and Thursdays | 12PM - 1PM | via ZOOM
Tenure/Promotion/Renewal Support Services
CELT offers consultation and support for faculty preparing the teaching components of tenure, promotion and/or contract renewal materials. These resources are designed to help faculty effectively document, reflect on, and communicate their teaching achievements, growth, and contributions.
CELT will provide a certificate listing the programs, workshops, and other engagement activities you’ve had with CELT. Email your request at celt@tulane.edu. Please allow at least two weeks for a response.
Creating a Teaching Portfolio Guide
The guide includes a recorded presentation and slidedeck.
Teaching Demonstration Support
CELT can help you prepare for a teaching demonstration that will be part of your interview process. Request a Meeting
Please allow at least two weeks for a meeting date to be scheduled.
Teaching Philosophy Statement Review
CELT will review your teaching philosophy statement providing feedback on how to make your statement unique to you, while providing important insights about your teaching. Submit your statement for review at celt@tulane.edu. Please allow at least two weeks for a response.
Programs
CELT Workshops are held frequently throughout the semester on a variety of topics of interest to faculty and/or anyone engaged in the classroom. Essentially informal conversations, these workshops are led by a member of the Tulane community on a topic of their choice. This is an opportunity for faculty at all ranks, from, adjunct to full professor, as well as graduate students, postdocs, and staff who are interested to meet and talk about teaching and showcase the innovative work they’re doing in their classes, with the aim of improving the classroom experience for students. Major workshop themes include pedagogy, mentorship, diversity, technology, faculty wellness, and HR topics. Workshops are among CELT’s most popular and well-attended programs.
The CELT Faculty Book Club provides 12 educators, from across departments and schools, the opportunity to read and discuss books on a variety of pedagogy and learning theory topics. Conversations range from the macro level, how to improve the academy, to more micro topics relating to each participant’s individual class. Most importantly, the book club creates a structure in which participants can talk about teaching in a supportive environment around a common theme. The book club meets twice per semester, usually on campus. CELT purchases the books for all members.
Fall 2026 Book Club
"Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn't Matter - and What Really Does" by Ned Laff and Scott Carlson. This will be the topic of the plenary session for Tulane's Sparking Success Conference. Join Lauren Dunaway, Faculty Chair for the Sparking Success conference, to explore and apply Laff and Carlson's ideas to our own teaching.
- Tuesday, September 22 | 4pm - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, October 20 | 4pm - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, November 17 | 4pm - 5:30pm
At the end of each semester CELT hosts Faculty Grading Breaks to reward you for all your hard work. Past events have featured crepes and gelletes from Crepes Rendezvous, wine or champagne, and massage chairs. They are a great way to socialize, eat, and relax during the often stressful grading period at the end of the semester.
Fall 2026 | TBD
CELT hosts annual Think, Design, Make workshops in partnership with the Scot Ackerman MakerSpace to bring faculty a 2 day creative workshop to introduce the MakerSpace on Tulane's uptown campus and design-thinking skills that can be used inside and outside the classroom.
Fall 2027 Think, Design, Make TBA
Faculty Learning Communities are groups of 4 to 12 faculty members, engaged in a collaborative year-long study of a pedagogy, teaching-related, or leadership theme, held at least monthly.
The purpose of FLCs is to provide faculty with the opportunity to study a pedagogy related topic, in-depth & in a small cohort, foster interdisciplinary communication, and to produce materials (guides, workshops, scholarly articles) that can be helpful to the larger community.
Training & Development of SoTL AY 26- 27
The series, consisting of 5 workshops across the 2026 – 27 academic year, will walk participants through the lifecycle of a SoTL project from the development of a research question, to the IRB process, potential funding sources and ending in publication strategies.
At the end of the series, all participants will have designed a SoTL research study, grounded in a theoretical or empirical framework, and have developed a plan for data collection and submitted an IRB proposal.
Deadline to Apply is Friday, September 1
Instructional Accessibility Network
The Instructional Accessibility Network is an exciting initiative at Tulane University aimed at continuously enhancing accessibility and equity across all learning experiences. This collaborative community brings together faculty, staff, and students who are committed to the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) and proactively dismantling barriers to academic success.
If interested, please email CELT Associate Director for Instructional Design, Eunice Ofori to join this cohort.
Assessment (Re)Design Institute: Teaching and Learning in an AI-Influenced World
Fall 2026 | Dec 14 - 17, 2026 | A partnership between CELT and the Connally Alexander Institute for Data Science (CAIDS)
This three and a half-day Summer Institute invites faculty to rethink assessment in a moment when AI tools are rapidly reshaping how students learn and produce work. Whether you are actively incorporating AI into your teaching or prefer to limit its use, the central challenge is the same: how do we design assessments that meaningfully evaluate student learning?
The institute will be led in part by José Bowen (https://josebowen.com), along with Tulane faculty and staff experienced in course and assessment design.
Apply to attend the Fall 2026 Assessment (Re)Design Institute
*Summer Institutes announced early Spring.
Universal Design for Learning Academy
Are you curious about ways of thinking about teaching and learning that helps give all students an equal opportunity to succeed? Incorporating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into the design of your class is the solution.
Summer 2026 UDL Academy - 3 day Online via Zoom
Monday, July 13 - Wednesday, July 15 | 9:30am to 12:30pm
This summer academy is a collaboration with CELT, Innovative Learning Center, and Goldman Center for Student Accessibility.
Sparking Success: A Faculty Development Conference
Sparking Success is a platform where faculty of all disciplines and experience levels can share best practices, innovative approaches, and practical ideas to enhance any aspect of faculty life.
9th Annual Sparking Success: Faculty Development Conference
Save-the-Date: Wednesday and Thursday, January 6 and 7, 2027
Learn more about the Sparking Success: Faculty Development Conference