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Inclusive Teaching and Beyond: The Need for Institutional Change
"Inclusion" has become a post-pandemic buzzword in many universities, highlighting historical inequities within a broader crisis in higher education. As universities face record levels of student despair and disconnection, campuses across the country report...
Abundant Learning: How Online Courses Build Equity and Access
The story we've been told about higher education is changing dramatically. What was once seen as the clearest path to a successful career, the college degree now is being closely examined for its role in deepening inequalities and being out of reach for many...
Pedagogies of Possibility in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
Educators everywhere remember the pandemic as a period of cataclysmic upheaval, the effects of which are still being felt today. For many longtime educators like me, the events of 2020 meant not just a sudden switch to new modalities but also a reexamination of...
Critical University Studies: Rethinking Academia from Within
In 2024, as debates intensify over the legitimacy, fairness, and value of higher education, a new academic movement is bringing analysis and balance to a discourse increasingly vulnerable to partisan posturing. “Critical University Studies” (CUS) looks at the...
Learning Assistants as Peer Educators in Large Online Courses
Following the graduate student worker strike of 2023, many faculty members like me were caught off guard by the sudden need for alternative instructional support. The term "learning assistant" initially brought to mind images of undergraduates serving merely as...
Press Release: Phi Beta Kappa Announces 2024 Key into Public Service Scholars
20 Undergraduate Changemakers Selected for Scholarship Program Connecting Arts and Sciences Students with Public Sector Pathways Washington, D.C. May 6, 2024 – The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society and a leading national...
Self-Nominations Now Open for the Second FATE Cohort
The Office of the Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning (OVPTL) is soliciting self-nominations for the second cohort of Faculty Academy of Teaching Excellence (FATE) Fellows. UCI FATE is a means for campus to highlight faculty that have a demonstrated record of...
UCI Hosts Eighth Annual STEM Education Research Conference
On January 12 and 13, DTEI welcomed nearly 300 faculty, staff, and students from two- and four-year colleges and universities for the eighth annual Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) West conference. Conference goals included...
UC Irvine Leadership Participate in UC Workshop: Practical Approaches to Undergraduate Education
On January 29, 2024, UC Provost Katherine Newman convened a systemwide, day-long virtual gathering titled “Post-Congress Workshop: Practical Approaches to Undergraduate Education.” The event consisted of panels and breakout discussions focused on innovative course...