Initiatives

Communities of Practice

• Faculty Portfolio Working Group: Develop a portfolio as a scholarly project that provides documented evidence of teaching from a variety of sources.
• Mindful Community
• P-MAX (Preparing Mentors and Advisors at Xavier): P-MAX is a training program that is designed to provide participating faculty with the knowledge and skills needed to mentor and advise undergraduate students, especially those engaged in research.
• Part-time Faculty Support: Links and resources for new and returning part-time faculty members.
• Walking Club
• Xavier Faculty Writing Group: Each semester, the Xavier Faculty Writing Group provides a supportive community for teacher-scholars to further their academic writing.

Communities of Learning

• #LearnEverywhereXULA Advanced Certification
• Science Education Research Group (SERG)
• First-Year Faculty Cohort
• Second-Year Faculty Cohort
• Prompt & Response: AI discussion groups
• Fall Faculty Book Club: During the fall semester CAT sponsors a book club for Xavier faculty.

Other Initiatives

• CAT Talks and other faculty workshops: see our event listing
• Mid-Course Review: Discover what your students really think about your teaching.
• Part-time Faculty Support
• The Research Brief
• Writing Retreat: similar to the Writing Group but without the long-term commitment.

Past Initiatives

• Service Learning Partnership: Learn to design your course or assignment around community service.
• Sustaining the Dialog: Building Core Expertise in Contemplative Pedagogy
• Xavier Contemplative Inquiry Team
• Writing Lock-Ins: CAT+FD offered a series of monthly "lock-ins." These have been superseded by the weekly Writing Group.

For initiatives prior to 2018, see the archives on our website.