Dissertation Pedagogies: A CTEI Community
Towards a Pedagogy of Effective Dissertation and Thesis Supervision, Mentorship, and Feedback Processes and Practices

Co-Chairs: Drs. Tommy Mayberry (Director, CTEI) and Nate Fuks (Associate Chair, DCP)

CTEI Communities of Practice, Care, and Play (“CTEI Communities”) are monthly opportunities to connect and collaborate with peers on a shared teaching interest (ranging in overarching themes and in month-to-month topics) in low-stakes-but-high-impacts ways. These are virtual conversational spaces across place and time to bring Yorkville and TFS faculty and instructors together as whole people from our social-rhetorical locations, academic communities, and instructional contexts to explore pedagogical themes. 

This CTEI Community is a welcoming group of folks from across our campuses who are interested in and committed to effective dissertation and graduate thesis pedagogical practices and processes. In our meetings, we will share literature, lived experiences, as well as our own practices, challenges, and failures with dissertation pedagogies to provide support to each other, share resources, and stretch and grow together towards our own and our graduate students’ success. Typically, we will have some community building/ice-breakers activities, discussion questions and/or provocations, and opportunities for folks to share, and you will be invited to participate in whatever way is most comfortable to and accessible for you in each session.  

We invite anyone interested in dissertation and graduate thesis pedagogies and practices, no matter how much experience with or knowledge you have on existing frameworks and graduate-level supervision and mentorship, to join us. This is a place to learn, unlearn, and relearn together in a safe, brave, vulnerable, and good way. 

Meetings will be monthly – specific date, time, and recurrence TBC soon.