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From November 3 to 7, 2025, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) will host Indigenous Education and Treaties Recognition Week (TRW) with a series of events across campus that includes educational presentations, cultural celebrations and a film screening. Community members are encouraged to participate in programming aimed at deepening understanding of Indigenous experiences, treaty rights and treaty relationships in Canada, all contributing to the broader work toward reconciliation.

The GTDP learning and teaching workshop series covers many aspects of professional development in teaching. These workshops are open to all Academic Assistants (AAs) and interested graduate students from TMU.

Throughout November, join the Experiential Learning Hub for watch parties featuring encore sessions from CEWIL Canada's 2025 Conference. Bring your lunch and view impactful presentations on work-integrated learning topics including Indigenization, community approaches, scalability, and WIL frameworks. Sessions run November 4, 12, 18, and 26. Discussion to follow viewings. Register for all sessions you plan to attend. Contact experiential@torontomu.ca for accommodations or questions and check out the EL Hub website for full details.

Faculty, contract lecturers, AAs and staff are invited to join the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) for a community read-in to learn about the treaties that cover the territory that Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) sits on. We will interactively and collectively read excerpts from several treaties, then discuss our relationship to them as learners and educators. In advance of the session, we ask that participants read Chapter 27 of Chelsea Vowel’s Indigenous Writes.

Join us for an in-person EL Hub Community of Practice. Share what's happening in your EL work—the joys and challenges, innovations and frustrations, hopes and obstacles. We'll collaborate on practical solutions and next steps tailored to your needs. To maximize our time together, please complete brief registration questions to help shape the discussion. Your input will guide meaningful conversations and actionable outcomes.

Hosted by CELT, the Teaching Café is a monthly, in-person drop-in space for faculty and CUPE instructors to connect, share, and learn from one another. Each session offers an informal and supportive environment to discuss teaching challenges, exchange ideas, and hear how colleagues are approaching their courses. Whether you’re looking for practical strategies, new perspectives, or simply a sense of community, the Teaching Café is a chance to engage in meaningful conversation with peers who understand the realities of teaching. Come as you are, no preparation required.

Our first 2025 Free School is a presentation from stitched!, a live journalism studio at the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. Their recent show, Living with Drones, is an interactive, multi-sensorial performance about the sounds of war, in particular the use of drones, and their devastating, traumatic impact on the residents of Gaza. Living with Drones debuted at the Camden People’s Theatre in January 2025 and has continued to engage audiences at sold out performances in Toronto, Ottawa, and Washington, D.C.

As the Sanctuary Scholars program at TMU enters its third year, the Office of Social Innovation will continue its information sessions for the Sanctuary Scholars program in September. These sessions aim to build awareness of the challenges these students face, offer support strategies, and highlight available resources. We invite faculty, contract lecturers, AAs and staff to join and learn more.

Join Registrarial Support Services to learn more about handling grading responsibilities in alignment with TMU’s policies.This introduction and refresher session is for new and current faculty/contract lecturers and academic administrators involved in grading and grade revisions. In this session you will learn about grading deadlines, impacts of late and missing grades, and where to find resources and assistance.