UCITE

Case Western Reserve University’s campus community grows more diverse with each incoming class. To create the most inclusive learning environment possible, the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will host a session with individuals who can help faculty think about dif...

How can universities best balance the needs of free speech and academic freedom while creating a safe and welcoming environment for all their members? At the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education session, Lou Stark, vice president for student affairs, and Peter Poulos, uni...

Despite the amount of time most people spend in classrooms during their formal education, people often only remember a few concepts here and there. So what makes some ideas "stick" in the minds of people long after they heard them, while other seem to magically disappear from their consciousness al...

Faculty often face many unexpected classroom moments, such as a student question or demand about grading, a discussion of deadlines or assignments that takes a surprisingly confrontational turn, or an allegation of gender or ethnic insensitivity that seems to come out of nowhere. The next Universit...

Faculty members from across the university are invited to apply to become University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) Learning Fellows for the Spring 2016 semester. UCITE Learning Fellowships are available to Case Western Reserve University faculty—tenure track or not—each spr...

The ubiquity of the lecture as a teaching technique has been challenged by alternative modes such as flipped classrooms, seminars, discussion classes, and the like. Though there may be temptation to think of the lecture as an inferior method of teaching, used only by those among the teaching facult...

Communication failures in class may be the result of cultural differences and different academic environment experiences. Join Educational Services for Students, the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, and the Center for International Affairs for a session to learn common cul...

Over the past eight years, faculty readers of SAGES writing portfolios have indicated that Case Western Reserve University students are writing academic essays that meet grammatical and stylistic expectations, but demonstrate weaknesses in argumentation and critical thinking. Join the University Cen...

The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will focus on the services available through Educational Services for Students (ESS) to help students start the semester on the right track. Each academic year, ESS offers all students the free ESSential Planners to...

The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will focus on the Student Information System (SIS) and the University Registrar. Amy Hammett, university registrar and director of student information systems and services; Stacy Mitchell, associate director of stud...