Teaching Excellence Symposium 2026

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We invite colleagues throughout the CSU to share your ideas, innovations, and expertise at this year’s Teaching  Excellence Symposium (TES), taking place on October 28. 

Proposal Deadline: June 1
Submit your TES proposal here.

This year’s symposium will showcase how we connect theory to practice and educators to one another in meaningful ways. We welcome proposals that demonstrate engaging, hands-on, and forward-thinking approaches to teaching and learning in higher education.

We encourage sessions that explore:

• Applied and experiential learning (e.g. labs, projects, internships, service learning)
• Innovative teaching with emerging technologies
• Instructional design and educational technologist projects and partnerships 
• Evidence informed strategies for student engagement and success
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Assessment of real-world skills and outcomes
• Industry and community partnerships
• Promoting access and inclusion
• Institutionally supported teaching and learning initiatives (e.g. system funded grants, institution specific priorities, college and/or department supported projects, etc.) 

Whether you have a proven strategy, a creative idea, or a lesson learned from the classroom, your perspective can inspire colleagues across higher education.

Conference Structure

This is a virtual conference intended to meet educators where they are. Formats include both synchronous sessions, asynchronous resources, and prerecorded asynchronous presentations and demonstrations. 

• Synchronous Sessions
• Asynchronous Resources and Examples
• Asynchronous Prerecorded Presentations and Demonstrations 

Session formats may include:

CV Citation Guidelines 

YourLastName, FirstInitial. (2026, October 28). Presentation Form and Title. Teaching Excellence Symposium, Center for Teaching and Learning, Cal Poly Humboldt (online).

Questions and Guidance

Email: ctl@humboldt.edu