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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

The ConnectCWRU task force was created as part of the initiatives within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Suicide Prevention Grant that was awarded to the Division of Student Affairs last summer. The task force, which meets quarterly to evaluate and update…

The next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will cover Case Inquiry (IQ), which is a small-group learning method that is adapted from the “new” Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach introduced at McMaster University School of Medicine in 2005. IQ is the…

Halfway into the semester is a good time to take stock of how your course is going. First of all, you've had enough time to get a sense of what your students are like, and they've gotten a sense of you. But more importantly, it still leaves you with time to make the kinds of crucial course…