Call for Submissions

In the Fall of 2025, the University of California enrolled a record number of students from California, creating a range of campus-specific challenges across our institutions. As a result, the theme for The 2026 Teaching Professor Network Conference at UCR is:

 "Teaching and Learning in a Growing UC System" 

Submissions that most effectively speak to the conference theme will be prioritized. We are excited to support the work of an even larger and more diverse group of Professors of Teaching this year, so please consider submitting--especially if you have not done so before!   

Submissions can include: 

1. Presentations (research or other scholarly activities; short talk or poster)

2. Hands-on, active workshops (where participants are expected to walk away from the workshop with a product; e.g. implementable and actionable pedagogical plans and practices, etc.)

3. Panel discussions (organizers should recruit all panelists and create a list of discussion questions for their guests)

Topics for the above submissions can include but are not limited to:

- Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)

- Discipline-based educational research (DBER)

- Other scholarly activities (high impact practices, pedagogical innovations, mentorship models, curriculum development, techniques for addressing controversial issues in the classroom, etc.)

- Who succeeds at UC? Strategies for serving all students (addressing opportunity gaps, feelings of belonging, etc.)

- Teaching demonstrations or innovations (teaching modules, novel lesson plans, etc.)

- Scalable teaching strategies (regardless of class size)

- AI assisted instruction, grading, and/or assignment construction/completion

- Professional development (POTs in the UC system, tenure/promotion, sabbaticals, departmental/college engagement, etc.)

Submission deadline was March 13th by 11:59pm. Submissions are now closed.