Viking Teach Week

Fall 2025 Viking Teach Week 

^{Monday October 20 - Thursday 23, 2025}

Viking Teach Week is designed to celebrate and showcase teaching and learning at CSU and connect our Campus community. This year we are adding new elements to continue the celebration by cultivating conversations on creative Teaching, and in partnership with the Michael Schwartz Library celebrate open access week. 

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How to Participate

• Open your classroom to visitors on October 21 (register) or October 22 (register)
  • Observe a CSU instructor’s classroom on October 21 or October 22
• Share your syllabus as part of a “living course catalog” on Monday, October 20th (register).
• Special Featured Course HIS 274: Stop by the History Department MapWalk hosted by Dr. Stephen Cory. Thursday October 23
• Sip, Snack and Share: Connect with instructors about teaching and learning during the Teach Week Closing Reception on Thursday October 23
• Open Education Celebration Reception - Celebrate Viking Teach Week, Open Access Week, and all of the hard work CSU faculty have done to promote textbook equity, on Thursday, October 23 (register)  

registration required for the noted above events. 

 Also happening during VTW: 

• State of the University address: Tuesday October 21, 3:00pm President Laura Bloomberg  will share the stage with members of the university community to discuss exciting developments at CSU.Register Here
  • Remarks will be followed by a community reception and the unveiling of the new McCombs Family Plaza
• Teaching and Coaching: Tuesday October 21,11:30am–1pm in the Student Center Ballroom, Betsy Butterick will engage us in an interactive session on teaching and coaching the current generation.  Register Here

• The Friends of the Library is sponsoring a book sale on Thursday. October 23 and Friday. October 24 at the Michael Schwartz Library, 1st floor

  

_{^{Background: This initiative is based on the Faculty Bulldog Days at Yale, and the Faculty Open Classroom Initiative (FOCI) at Northwestern. As Nick Davis, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern explained, "Participating in the FOCI Program was a highlight of my academic year and made me feel more connected than ever to colleagues in very different disciplines at Northwestern." Leslie Sude, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine noted, "I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed my experience with Faculty Bulldog Days. The two classes I attended were very interesting, it was a treat to learn and think about things outside of my usual work."}} 

_{^{Other survey respondents wrote: "I learned of other options and techniques to teach my course." "...I wanted to experience what my undergraduate students and advisees feel as they sit in classrooms in those subject areas, most of which are totally foreign to me."}}