To ensure that your syllabus is accessible to all students and also contains the required "Students with Disabilities" insert, the Office of Learning Resources has made a template available. The template includes instructions and additional information.

 Accessible Syllabus Template (Word Document)

Develop Intercultural Competence to Foster International Student Success

Steps to Respond to Classroom Incivility (.pdf)

Text Anxiety (,PDF)

Five Keys to Motivating Students

A More Strategic Approach to Arranging Students into Groups

Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here’s How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive

The Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center contains an extensive library of faculty professional development and organizational development books.

Examples of books in the collection: Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences, Tools for Teaching, The Learning Portfolio, Developing Learner-Centered Teaching, Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration, Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty, The Academic Chair’s Handbook, Teaching the Large College Class: A Guidebook for Instructors with Multitudes, Diversity Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education, The Course Syllabus: A Learning Centered Approach, and The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty- First Century.

The University of Dayton has a number of outstanding technology resources available to foster collaboration, teaching and learning. In other words, the technology helps foster learning in community.

Inside the Studio videos feature topics of general academic interest drawn from the presenter’s field of study or academic interest.  The presenters included in this library are:

Susan Gardstrom, Irene Dickey, David Wright, Margaret Pinnell, Molly Schaller, and Stephen Wilhoit

Roesch Library provides online access to several professional development journals. These publications can be found through the Roesch Library online catalog or by using these links:

Click here to create your account and access the Teaching Professor (PDF)

The National Teaching and Learning Forum >>

The Journal of Excellence in College Teaching >>

All are expected to make every effort to be supportive of those who make requests for religious accommodation in order to respect the rights of faculty, staff, and students to observe religious traditions and to support the diversity of faith expression in the campus community. 

Those who request reasonable accommodations are expected to give advance notice of their request (e.g. within the first two weeks of class, as soon as meeting conflicts are identified, etc.) to the appropriate person (professor, chair, direct supervisor, etc.).

Everyone at the university is expected to be sensitive to and consider the religious needs of faculty, staff, and students when scheduling meetings and events, so as not to exclude the participation of others who may otherwise expect to or need to be present.

Given the complexity of robust campus schedules, classroom requirements, and workplace needs, there may be reasonable limits to the extent that religious accommodations can be extended.   Two-way communication is important, in any case, to consider circumstances and determine possibilities or limits, when necessary.  

UD employees can participate free of charge in live or archived webinars on a variety of topics, including teaching and learning, thanks to our membership in the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE)

A special “Vocation and Calling” collection is available in the Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (Roesch LIbrary Ground Floor) through the generosity of a NetVUE grant and continuing support of the Provost Office. This collection contains over 100 volumes of significant research and materials useful for vocation implementation across the curriculum.  You can search this collection through the library catalogue.

The Write Place and Roesch Library's reference services offer free research and writing assistance on any assignment, at any stage of the writing process. Additionally, UDit’s TechExpress offers free technical support for printing, password troubleshooting and laptops. These services are offered at Roesch Library’s first-floor Information Point. Hours are listed online at libcal.udayton.edu/hours. No appointment is necessary, although they are available; to make an appointment with the Write Place, email writeplace@udayton.edu; to make an appointment with a librarian, see libcal.udayton.edu/appointments.