{"id":7,"date":"2022-07-26T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/olcoct\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:31:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-label=\"Aboutwhoweare\" data-id=\"about--2\" data-export-id=\"about-10\" data-category=\"about\" class=\"about-10 content-section content-section-spacing\" id=\"aboutwhoweare\">\n<div class=\"gridContainer\">\n<div class=\"row middle-sm text-center\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-5 space-bottom-xs content-column\" data-type=\"column\">\n<h2 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center\">Who We&nbsp;<span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\">\ufeff<\/span>Are<span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300\">\ufeff<\/span><\/span><br \/><font face=\"Playfair Display, sans-serif\"><i>&amp; our mission<span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\"><sup>\ufeff<\/sup><\/span><span id=\"_mce_caret\" data-mce-bogus=\"1\" data-mce-type=\"format-caret\">\ufeff<\/span><\/i><\/font>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: Muli, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching is one of the nation\u2019s most renowned conferences presenting the scholarship of teaching and learning. Since 1981, teacher-scholars from across the U.S. and internationally have gathered the weekend before Thanksgiving to share innovative pedagogies and discuss questions, challenges, and insights about teaching and learning.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Muli, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/>\nThe Lilly Conference welcomes all participants who share an interest in improving college teaching through evidence-based practices, including faculty and administrators at universities, four-year colleges, and two-year colleges who wish to increase student learning through effective teaching, promote interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and facilitate communication among faculty about their classroom and online experiences.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Muli, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/>\nThe Conference has become a teaching retreat. Deans and chief academic officers often support the attendance of faculty teams at Lilly as recognition for outstanding faculty and for faculty development, and institutions planning Teaching and Learning Centers have found the Conference an effective way to meet and \u201cscout\u201d exceptional teacher-scholars. Miami University, with its timeless Georgian architecture and beautiful wooded areas, makes an attractive location for learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/files\/2026\/01\/Just-Leaf-4.png\" title=\"Just Leaf (4)\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-7 flexbox middle-xs center-xs space-bottom-xs\">\n<div class=\"overlay-box middle-xs center-xs flexbox\">\n<div class=\"overlay-box-offset shadow-medium border-color1 hide-xs offset-border\"><\/div>\n<p> <a data-cp-link=\"1\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"shadow-large\" data-size=\"485x705\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/files\/2025\/11\/CTE-Who-are-we-3.png\" alt=\"CTE - Who are we (3)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who We&nbsp;\ufeffAre\ufeff&amp; our mission\ufeff\ufeff&nbsp; The Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching is one of the nation\u2019s most renowned conferences presenting the scholarship of teaching and learning. Since 1981, teacher-scholars from across the U.S. and internationally have gathered the weekend before Thanksgiving to share innovative pedagogies and discuss questions, challenges, and insights about teaching and learning.&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/about\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9228,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pro\/page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/lillycon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}