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Nationwide, major conversations are being brought to political and social forefronts about access, parity and inclusion for transgender people. In May 2016, the Department of Education and Justice released its "Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender Students," which clarified guidance to educational ...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will hold a lunch session Friday, Sept. 30, focused on the university’s Student Information System (SIS) and the Office of the Registrar. Amy Hammett, university registrar and director of Student Information Systems and Services...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will host its next session Sept. 29, titled “Introduction to Teaching and Learning Technologies in [U]Tech and Google Apps for Education.” The Teaching & Learning Technologies group within University Technology ([U]Tech) is resp...

It has been said that students in college are at one of the most vulnerable points in their lives: away from home, pressured by academic requirements and social responsibilities, feeling their way through new relationships and opportunities. In addition to these "normal" stressors of college life, ...

The transition into higher education is a critically important time in a student's academic career. Those students who are able to quickly adapt and integrate into university life have better overall outcomes in retention and graduation rates. As a result, Case Western Reserve makes a concerted effo...

The ability to understand and analyze scholarly texts and journal articles is a critical skill for students to obtain. However, many students have difficulty in reading and understanding this material. At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education session, Dianne Kube, lect...

A picture is worth a thousand words, and so holds true for maps. Displaying data and statistics on maps allows trends and interrelationships to be revealed in ways that would be difficult to discover in tabular format. Much data and statistics have a spatial component, which lends it to be quantifi...

Women are catching up to their male counterparts in regard to matriculation and retention rates due to many of the empowerment resources and leadership development programs for women. Yet some question the value for university programs with a women-centered focus. What are the reasons that we still...

In classroom discussions, faculty often pose questions to students in order to assess and develop their students' understanding of the course content. However, many faculty members find that the complexity of the material makes the questions difficult for the students to fully grasp, even when they ...

There are a variety of funding resources for faculty on campus—but there may be some confusion among faculty about exactly what some of those funds are designed for, and how they might apply for them. The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education session will address those res...