Thursday, April 15 &
Friday, April 16, 2027
Memorial Union, Madison
OPID Spring Conference for Wisconsin Educators
2027 is OPID’s golden year. Fifty years of systemwide programs for faculty, instructors, and other educators in Wisconsin. OPID was imagined and co-created by faculty for faculty, and it has endured for five decades because of faculty working for faculty. (We use faculty as an inclusive term for instructors, lecturers, all teaching educators.) For 50 years, OPID has adapted to organizational, technological, and financial challenges, all the while protecting our core mission of teaching and learning with excellence. Teaching matters and OPID endures.
This year we invite you to join us for our 50th birthday. We envision a conference program that evokes joyful energy, resilience, vision, community, and renews (again) our identities as Wisconsin educators.
Quotes from Past Participants
“I enjoyed being in Madison with all the collegiate energy, and talking with colleagues invested as I am in academic excellence and, in particular, working with underserved populations.”
“I was inspired in general just to keep going, to keep believing in what I do and that it matters.”
“a great jolt of inspiration at the end of the year when I start to feel a bit burnt out.”
OPID Programs
Faculty College
Spring Conference on Teaching and Learning
Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars
Questions?
Inquiries may be directed to:
- Fay Akindes, Director of Systemwide Professional and Instructional Development, Universities of Wisconsin, fay.akindes@wisconsin.edu, (608) 263-2684.
- For technical support contact: Diane Waters, Program Associate, Office of Academic Affairs, UW system, OPID@lists.wisconsin.edu, (608) 262-8778.