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Virtual Events for Students and Faculty

Our college department is pleased to offer workshops and virtual lectures from fellow instructors, award-winning college and trade authors, and Norton team members to help support you and your teaching goals. Sign up to attend an upcoming event or access recordings of our most popular events.

Featured Events

ASTRONOMY
Ensuring Educational Equity in the Astro 101 Classroom

Hosted by Stacy Palen

In this online workshop, Stacy Palen, professor of astronomy at Weber State University and author of Understanding Our Universe, will discuss techniques for ensuring educational equity in the online Astronomy classroom.

HISTORY
The Second Founding

Eric Foner

The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Related to The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.

COMPOSITION
Writing & Research in an Age of Misinformation: An Online Lecture and Q&A

Andrea Lunsford

In this virtual guest lecture for both students and instructors, Andrea Lunsford offers practical advice on how to identify misinformation and lies, how to examine and to understand personal biases as well as those of others, and how to engage respectfully with people who may hold views very different from our own—essential strategies for students of writing and rhetoric today.

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Image Credits: (Illustration) Jared Oriel; (Palen Photo) Czac Williams; (Foner Photo) Erin Silber Photography; (Lunsford Photo) Courtesy of Andrea Lunsford
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