UCITE

The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will address how faculty can create a positive classroom environment. Much has been written about the academic benefits of applying positive psychology to secondary—and even elementary—school classrooms, but there…

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will offer its eighth Mentor Fellows program to promote and recognize good mentoring practices. The deadline to apply for UCITE’s Mentor Fellows program has been extended to Dec. 16. This series of seminars is designed to…

Mentoring relationships between graduate students and faculty are meant to foster the creation of new knowledge at a research university. The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will offer its eighth Mentor Fellows program to advance the goal of promoting and recognizing…

The “flipped classroom” has become a popular technique in education. The technique takes what is typically done in the actual classroom (listening to a lecture) and asking students to do this outside of class time (using pre-recorded lectures or similar resources). Then, what is typically done…

The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will offer an overview of Canvas, Case Western Reserve University’s new learning management system. Lauren Rogers, Katie Skapin and Genevieve Mathieson Kilmer, members of University Technology’s Teaching &…

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will host a session for faculty who are on the tenure track or anticipate a tenure track position someday. The typical criteria for tenure and promotion are scholarship, teaching and service. All universities subscribe to this but how…

One of our core institutional values at Case Western Reserve University is to strengthen our commitment to internationalization. As a result, as a university, we have successfully quadrupled the number of international students entering at the undergraduate level. In addition, approximately 25…

Many may think they know all of the resources available to faculty at the Kelvin Smith Library. But in addition to those resources, there are numerous ways in which the library specifically supports teaching at the university. Some of these include: The opportunity to bring your class to the…

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…