UCITE

Smartphones are pervasive and, perhaps, invasive. Yet, they can be useful. At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education session, Mike Kenney, assistant director for faculty support in teaching and learning technology, will share some tips and teaching ideas to help faculty...

In May, the Department of Education and Justice released its "Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender Students," which clarified guidance to educational institutions regarding transgender students and Title IX. While the university has been given guidelines in terms of governmental standards and laws,...

While many in higher education speak of the value of critical thinking, faculty often feel intense time pressures or do not have sufficient strategies to seamlessly integrate critical thinking into instruction. This week, the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will host Asso...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will host a session on using Google Docs Thursday, June 9, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick Room (use Adelbert Road doors). During the session, tips and tricks for using Google Docs for in class and pe...

A bequest from the family of the late Evan Nord makes it possible for the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education to offer Nord Grants to faculty members. The grants are available for a wide range of activities. Applications for the next round of grants are due May 25. The round ...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education will recognize the scholar-researchers who have been awarded fellowships under the Glennan endowment. The fellows will talk about their projects Friday, April 22, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick R...

When faculty members teach students with different educational and cultural backgrounds, expectations of an individual’s "home" educational system tend to arise, and with that can come biases, even frustrations. How do we best teach if our students have been brought up in an entirely different educ...

It has been sometimes said that classroom teaching is the indoor equivalent of whitewater rafting: long episodes of quiet calm, interspersed suddenly with an onset of rapids, which instructors are often unprepared for. It could be a student question or demand about grading, a discussion of deadlines...

Sarah de Swart recently took over the interim director role of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE). De Swart has been a member of UCITE since 2001 and served as associate director of the center prior to Mano Singham’s retirement in December. A graduate of Harvard...

While many individuals in higher education speak of the value of critical thinking, faculty often feel intense time pressures or do not have sufficient strategies to seamlessly integrate critical thinking into instruction. At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education sessi...