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Introducing UCI Spark
The Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and UCI Compass Teaching and Learning Analytics are excited to introduce a new, first-of-its-kind student-centered analytics tool, UCI Spark. Spark, a smartphone-friendly web app, will offer two key features...
Dean’s Honorees Announced for Celebration of Teaching
At the 32nd annual Celebration of Teaching, UC Irvine will recognize instructors nominated by the Dean of each school in addition to the recipients of campuswide awards. Congratulations to all the exceptional Dean’s Honorees! Claire Trevor School of the Arts:...
Join Us for UCI Teach Day 2024
On Thursday, September 19, 2024, UC Irvine faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to participate in the second annual UCI Teach Day. To prepare for this exciting day dedicated to celebrating effective teaching and learning, promoting a campuswide culture of inclusion and equity, and recognizing the incredible faculty and instructors who embody these goals, check out this event preview.
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...
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