Virtual Research Caves – Fall 2024 🗓

Virtual Research Caves (VIRC) are focused working sessions, offered through the CTL for Pratt faculty to support research and writing SoTL work within a community.  VIRCs are scheduled approximately once per month and are structured to enable focused progress on your work, with an added community accountability for your efforts.

Click the dates below to RSVP for the Fall 2024 ViRCs:

Here is what previous participants have said about VIRCs:

  • I love the idea and I am always looking for ways to concentrate more deeply and be less distracted
  • I was 90% productive – I got through my to-do sprint list and drafted a document I’ve been avoiding for over a month!
  • What I find most helpful about these sessions are the quiet, focused companionship
  • I was able to get very focused and enjoy tasks that I thought would be rather painful to carry out

For more information about Cave Day process — which originally inspired Pratt’s Research Caves —  or to join their professionally-led sessions, please see their website here: https://www.caveday.org/

For additional tools on utilizing for focused work, see these resources: https://www.caveday.org/tools

Click here to view the presentation around the theory behind this type of work from our very first session

Scheduled Announcements

Upcoming events at the CTL:

Imagining a University for the Common Good: Higher Education and Its Values Reading Group
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This reading group, starting in early March, invites faculty to engage deeply with urgent questions about the purpose and future of higher education in times of intersecting global crises through critical engagement with the book Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good.
Creative Accommodations: Spring 2026
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The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in collaboration with the Learning/Access Center (L/AC), will offer the Creative Accommodations self-paced series again this Spring semester, punctuated with online synchronous Zoom conversations. The goal of this series is to support faculty as they respond effectively and appropriately to students with accommodations.
Interactive Conversations
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The CTL welcomes all faculty to attend our interactive conversation series this Spring around topics that YOU propose: anything you are curious about, anything you want to discuss with colleagues or things that come up throughout the semester.

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