The 2025 Course Design Institute took place from May 19–23 and included 18 instructors representing 14 departments across 6 colleges and units. Throughout the week, participants engaged in a student-centered, backward design process, beginning with identifying what they wanted students to remember long after the course ended, then aligning learning objectives, assignments, and activities to support those goals.

As we complete the second year of Students as Partners at the University of Iowa, we are pleased to share a photo essay recapping a busy and successful academic year for the program. In addition to collaborating with instructors at Iowa and working with the Center for Teaching, student partners presented at numerous conferences across the country and hosted a cross-institutional visit with partners from Xavier University.

As the 2024–2025 academic year comes to an end, the Center for Teaching would like to thank our graduate teaching fellows for their invaluable work.

This is the fifth installment of our Staff Spotlight Series, which aims to introduce you to our team in the Center for Teaching. Sara Nasrollahian is an associate director in the Center for Teaching.

The Transforming Your Research Into Teaching (TYRIT) Workshop Series introduces participants to an evidence-based course design framework and helps them design a course based on their current area of research interest or one they may need to teach in their future careers. TYRIT is open to all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

This is the fourth installment of our Staff Spotlight Series, which aims to introduce you to our team in the Center for Teaching. Eva Latterner is an assistant director in the Center for Teaching.