Teaching at Scale: Engaging Students in Large-Enrollment Classes
About the Event
Hosted by the Faculty Senate and the Office of Academic Affairs, with support from the Louisiana Board of Regents, this campus-wide panel will bring together faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching high-enrollment courses to share concrete strategies for designing engaging learning environments at scale. Panelists will discuss course design, active learning, use of technology, and approaches to building community and supporting student success in large classes, followed by time for questions and discussion.
Moderator
- Daniel C. Tirone, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; President, LSU A&M Faculty Senate; Chair, LSU Council of Faculty Advisors
Panelists
- Maribel Dietz, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of History
- Dan Capron, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
- Zakiya S. Wilson-Kennedy, Ron and Dr. Mary Neal Distinguished Associate Professor of Chemistry Education, Department of Chemistry; Associate Dean for Academic Innovation and Engagement, College of Science
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: 1321 Business Education Complex
Accessibility
We strive to host events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact Kelsey Brannon at facultysenate@lsu.edu or 225-578-7211. At least one week advance notice will help us to provide seamless access.
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past events hosted by the faculty senate
What Do Academic Freedom and the First Amendment Really Mean? A Conversation With David M. Rabban
Hosted by LSU Faculty Senate
Speaker: David M. Rabban, J.D.
Author of Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 3:00pm (Reception to follow)
Location: Holliday Forum, Journalism Building
Click here to watch the video recording of Professor Rabban's talk.
About the Event
The LSU Faculty Senate is delighted to host an event featuring David M. Rabban, Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He is the author of Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right and has particular expertise in constitutional law and free speech in higher education.
Following his keynote address, Professor Rabban will join a panel of LSU faculty to answer pressing questions submitted by registrants.
Panel participants:
- Joy Blanchard, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Higher Education, Lutrill & Pearl Payne School of Education, College of Human Sciences and Education
- Thomas Galligan, J.D., Dodson & Hooks Endowed Chair in Maritime Law, James Huntington and Patricia Kleinpeter Odom Professorship, Edwin W. Edwards Distinguished Professorship, Professor of Law, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
- James Stoner, Ph.D. Professor, Hermann Moyse, Jr., Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute, Department of Political Science, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
About Professor Rabban
Professor Rabban is currently the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as counsel to the American Association of University Professors for several years before joining the Texas faculty in 1983. He later served as its general counsel and as chair of its committee on academic freedom and tenure. His teaching and research focus on free speech, academic freedom, higher education and the law, and American legal history. He was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2016 and of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University in 2016-17.