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April 2026 marks the federal deadline for digital accessibility under ADA Title II. At UC Davis, our commitment to accessibility will honor both the mandate and our Principles of Community as we remove barriers for all learners. Part of a series to be published during the fall of 2025, this post explores what accessibility means in practice and ways we can all contribute. Find all the posts in this series by clicking the yellow "Quick Access" label at the end of the post.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Welcome back to campus and to teaching at UC Davis! Fall is always an exciting time for the ATS instructional design team because of the new faculty and faculty ideas that we encounter at our first events of the school year.

Please register now to join us Friday October 3rd at noon for our October DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Due to somewhat popular demand, this year we continued the now SITT tradition of closing out the first day of SITT with a topical poem. Please find the SITT 2025 poem below.

Andy Jones

The inclusive classroom
includes us, too.

With apologies
to that treasure,
our favorite professor
of Plant Pathology,
we may enter
with the sunny point of view,
with the celebratory oratory stories
of a Sara Dye, or,
likely, something darker.

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you so much for your interest in the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT)! I am pleased to announce that faculty and support staff can now view recordings of all the Live Talks from SITT 2025.  

Dear UC Davis Friends and Colleagues,

Unexpectedly gifted with a couple of minutes to riff during a SITT interview, I reflected on my nearly spotless SITT participation record over the last 30 years. You might be able to intuit from my rambling reflections that I treasure SITT and the overlapping communities of practice (and communities of friends!) that we have created together since 1995.

If you haven’t done so already, please plan to join us at SITT 2025.

Best,

Andy Jones
Host, SITT 2025

As we prepare for the 30th edition of our yearly Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, scheduled for September 11–12, 2025, the SITT coordinating committee and advisory committee are happy to share the growing number of faculty interviews that are now available for viewing on The Wheel. 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who participated in our May 16th Faculty Forum on Preparing for SITT 2025 and Considering the IET Five-Year Plan.

The attending faculty talked about their past experiences of the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, and their brief responses to IET plans for the coming half-decade.

Enjoy both this short preview and the full recording of our May 16th Faculty Forum.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, May 16th at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on two topics:

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our May 2nd DOLCE on teaching undergraduates to create collaborative independent research projects with Google Slides (Whitney Duim from Chemistry), as well as using generative AI to summarize peer comments on collaborative projects in Biomedical Engineering classes (by Jennifer Choi).

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, May 2, at noon (via Zoom) for our May faculty DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you can’t join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording. 

Whitney Duim, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Chemistry, will speak on “Shared Google slides for scientific research, collaboration, and community-building in a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience.”