Ready to share your expertise, spark ideas, and connect with colleagues across campus? The Center for Faculty Excellence is accepting proposals for sessions and session series for the 2025–2026 academic year! We’re looking for facilitators and campus partners who want to engage the BGSU Teaching Community in inquiry, reflective practice, and innovative, inclusive approaches to teaching and learning.

By contributing a session, you’re helping build a supportive, collegial culture that promotes equitable student success—for the public good.

Sessions should:

• Have a clear topic that is reflected in the title of the session and supports the mission and vision of the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE).
• Have clear learning outcomes.
• Provide relevant examples of concepts, skills, and practices.
• Provide opportunities for participant collaboration, interaction, and/or engagement.
• Be relevant to a wide spectrum of the BGSU teaching community (when possible), including full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and staff (classified and administrative).
• Be achievable in your proposed session duration (usually 30-60 minutes depending on facilitator preference). 

Session series should:

• Include at least three sessions.
• Have a clear topic or theme that is reflected in the title of the series and supports the mission and vision of the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE). 
• Be relevant to a wide spectrum of the BGSU teaching community (when possible), including full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and staff (classified and administrative). 

If you are proposing a session or workshop that has not been offered by the CFE before, follow these steps:

1. Download and complete the CFE Individual Session Proposal Template, outlining your proposed CFE session. Please do not edit the template directly in Sharepoint. 
2. Refer to the CFE Session Facilitator Guide for information on each of the required sections for the individual sessions. 
3. Upload the completed proposal template as a Microsoft Word document to the 2025-2026 CFE Individual Session Proposal Form by the appropriate deadline.

If you are proposing a single session or workshop that has been offered by the CFE before and do not have any significant changes to make to your session and/or session description, follow these steps:

1. Complete the 2025-2026 CFE Individual Session Proposal Form by the appropriate deadline and indicate on the form that this is a recurring session. You do not need to submit a proposal template.

Individual Session Proposal Submission Deadlines

If you are proposing an individual session, we ask that you submit all session proposals by the deadlines outlined below. Please note: Each workshop or session may only be offered once per semester.

If you are proposing a session or workshop series  (i.e., at least 3 different sessions on the same topic, theme, or resource) that has not been offered by the CFE before, follow these steps:

1. Download and complete the CFE Session Series Proposal Template, outlining your proposed CFE session series, including an explanation of the series as well as each session in the series. Please do not edit this template directly in Sharepoint. CFE series consists of at least three (3) workshops or sessions that explore a topic, theme, or resource.
2. Refer to the CFE Session Facilitator Guide for information on each of the required sections for the individual sessions. 
3. Upload the completed proposal template as a Microsoft Word document to the 2025-2026 CFE Session Series Proposal Form by the appropriate deadline. 

If you are proposing a session series that has been offered by the CFE before and do not have any significant changes to make to your series and/or sessions, follow these steps:

1. Complete 2025-2026 CFE Session Series Proposal Form by the appropriate deadline and indicate on the form that this is a recurring series and add each of the  proposed sessions in the series to the form. You do not need to submit a proposal template.

Session Series Proposal Deadlines

If you are proposing a series, we ask that you submit the session proposals for all sessions in the series by the proposal submission deadline. Please note: Each session series may only be offered once per academic year.

Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the CFE Team based on the following criteria:

• The proposed session/series has a clear topic that supports the mission and vision of the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE). 
• The proposed session/series has clear learning outcomes.
• The proposed session/series will provide relevant examples of concepts, skills, and practices.
• The proposed session/series will provide opportunities for participant collaboration, interaction, and/or engagement.
• The session/series is relevant to members of the BGSU teaching community (when possible), including full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, graduate students, and staff (classified and administrative).
• The proposed session/series has a clear plan which can be accomplished within the requested time frame. 

After reviewing your proposal, the CFE team will reach out to you about the next steps for your proposed session or series.