Registration is open for the 2026 UNM Spring Teaching Conference

The Center for Teaching and Learning, in partnership with the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee, invites faculty from across UNM's Albuquerque and branch campuses to come together for two days of conversation, learning and connection at the 2026 UNM Spring Teaching Conference, which will be held April 8-9.

The first day will be held in person in the Student Union Building, level 3, from 8:40 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., then culminating with the Teaching Excellence Awards Celebration in SUB Ballroom C from 4-6 p.m.

April 9 will be a virtual conference day, with sessions scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

This year's theme is Constellating Our Praxis: Connection and Inspiration in Teaching and Learning at UNM. The conference will spotlight the UNM Framework for Teaching and Learning Success, developed by the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee and endorsed by the full Faculty Senate in April 2025. Sessions throughout the conference will highlight the work already happening at UNM aligned with the framework's principles, and the Teaching Excellence Awards will be aligned with the seven practice domains of the Framework.

The 2026 conference welcomes all members of the UNM campus community - faculty, instructors, staff, administrators, graduate students and undergraduate students - who share an interest in teaching and learning.

The keynote luncheon speaker on April 8 will be Marissa Greenberg, associate professor in UNM's Department of English Language and Literature; affiliated faculty in the Institute for Medieval Studies; special advisor on disability affairs at UNM's Division for Change and Empowerment (DiCE); and Presidential Teaching Fellow (2025-2027) with a project focused on cultivating academic pipelines for Lobos with disabilities.

The title of her talk is "Making My Way As a Sick Academic," where she will share how chronic illness impacted her approaches to teaching, scholarship and advocacy, with the common denominator being connection - finding it, creating it and sharing it. She also will relate how her storytelling has resulted in a community of practice at UNM, bringing together faculty with disabilities to learn with and from one another.

Her talk will be in person, but also will be offered on Zoom.

To learn more about the conference and register, visit the conference page. Registration will be open through March 24.