Center for Engaged Pedagogy

At the Center for Engaged Pedagogy, we believe that teaching and learning is a transformative process. Both students and teachers engage in meaningful teaching and learning practices that foster mutual growth and facilitate the collaborative cultivation of knowledge. We are committed to supporting and striving towards inclusive and innovative pedagogical practices that acknowledge diverse ways of knowing, forms of expertise, and academic pathways.

CEP is thrilled to announce our Bold 2026 Conference lineup! This year’s Bold conference explores the relationships between two terms that appear at first as opposites: Connection and Friction. The roundtables, pedagogy circles, and workshops that make up this year’s conference invite us to consider how teaching and learning require both. We imagine these terms broadly: connecting with other people, connecting ideas to broader networks, coming up against productive resistance in our learning environments, and experiencing moments where this friction becomes so kinetic that it threatens to stall learning, among others. This year, we will explore how the processes of calibrating connection and friction makes learning and knowledge production possible.

The Curiosity Initiative asks: What are the conditions that shape our desires to know, learn, and explore today? How are those desires experienced alongside other people, in particular places, and at specific times? What are the relationships between learning, inquiry, and action? Launched by the Center for Engaged Pedagogy and the Office of the Provost with generous support from a gift by Jane Jelenko (BC ‘70), the initiative includes a range of programs and opportunities. We’ll be exploring curiosity (and its complexity) from several disciplinary perspectives and across many different practices.

The Learning, Engagement, and Assessment Fellows (LEAFs) are Barnard students are trained in student-faculty pedagogical partnership, assessment/feedback, and facilitation. The LEAF program is based on the model of pedagogical partnership, which brings students and faculty together in mutually-rewarding collaboration on faculty's teaching questions. You can learn more about the program by selecting the "Pedagogical Partnership" tab on our site and read more about our fellows by clicking the link below.