UCITE

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) invites faculty, staff, postdocs and graduate students to participate in the 2022 Teaching and Learning Colloquium, which will be held Wednesday, April 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Thwing Center, Room 101. This in-person eve...

University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education's (UCITE) next First Friday event is a discussion titled “Connecting to Community: Enhancing a Course with Service-Learning.” The session will be held Friday, April 1, from 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in Allen Memorial Medical Library's Herric...

Teaching and learning in large classes (75+ students) can present unique opportunities to engage with students. Sometimes, even small tweaks in your teaching can have a huge impact on student learning. University Center for Innovative Teaching and Education (UCITE) refers to the science of teachin...

In a 2018 Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “How to Create a Syllabus,” Professor Kevin Gannon offered ideas to better engage and inform students using a course syllabus, explaining it as more than a checklist or contract. Instead, he argued, the syllabus sets the tone for a course and ex...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) will continue its First Fridays series Friday, Feb. 4, with a workshop titled “Syllabus Ideas to Engage Students.” This event will be held from 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick Room. The c...

Calling all faculty and instructors who are interested in exploring and expanding their knowledge of student assessment: Limited spaces are open for the spring 2022 Assessment Learning Community Fellowship Program, facilitated by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE)...

All faculty and instructors who are interested in exploring and expanding their knowledge of student assessment are encouraged to apply for the Assessment Learning Community Fellowship Program, facilitated by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE). During this seven-...

Those who have participated in University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) programs in the past are invited to a “class reunion” Friday, Dec. 3, at 11:40 a.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick Room (ground floor). Matthew Garrett, UCITE director, and Jenny Hadin...

The University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, in partnership with the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and the Center for International Affairs, has developed a new educational development program for the spring 2022 term: Advancing Inclusivity, Internationaliz...

Applications are now open for Nord Grants, financial awards made to individual full-time faculty members or faculty members in collaboration with others, for the purpose of developing innovative teaching and research projects that directly benefit student learning. Such projects could include (but a...