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Student Success Conference, April 20

April 20, 2021

All University of Arizona faculty and staff are invited to attend the 3rd annual Student Success Conference. The focus of this year's conference will be working as a community to advance degree completion.

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General Education Quick Start

April 7, 2021

The Office of General Education is pleased to announce its release of the General Education Quick Start. This is a module-based, self-paced introduction to the GE vision, curriculum and features for instructors preparing courses for the new UArizona General Education program.

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Town Hall on the Upcoming HLC Review - Recorded from April 2

April 2, 2021

On April 2nd, Senior Vice Provost Gail Burd held a virtual, interactive town hall for campus stakeholders to learn more about the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and the comprehensive review taking place on April 26 and 27. This town hall provided an opportunity to learn more about HLC accreditation and to discuss different roles in the review process.

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OIA Safe Protocols for In-Person Recordings

March 18, 2021

The OIA Multimedia Solutions team can help create multimedia to enhance your classroom or website.  Experienced staff and student technicians can help to integrate many forms of media into your course. 

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HLC Reports Submitted. Site Visit Review Approaches.

March 15, 2021

UArizona reached a significant milestone toward the HLC Reaffirmation of Accreditation with the locking of the Assurance Argument, Federal Compliance Worksheet, COVID Report, and Multi-Campus Report. At this point, no updates are possible. The review is on April 26-27, 2021. 

Read Dr. Burd's Memo

CIRTL Member Spotlight - Alma B. Tejeda Padron

March 12, 2021

Alma B. Tejeda Padron is a Ph.D. student in Psychology, where she is also the Graduate Student Representative and a member of the Online Education Committee. In addition to joining CIRTL, she is currently pursuing the Graduate Certificate in College Teaching through OIA.

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CIRTL Pilots Digital Learning Portfolios

March 8, 2021

As part of a larger shift on campus toward reflection and portfolio learning, CIRTL is piloting the use of digital learning portfolios as a way for our members to track their progress and reflect on their learning as they pursue their certificate levels. 

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CIRTL Teaching Tidbits

Feb. 17, 2021

As part of a larger effort to develop a repository of “best practices” on teaching during COVID to share across the CIRTL Network, institutions were encouraged to submit 3-minute “Teaching Tidbit” videos that addressed various challenges associated with creating community online to the Fall ‘20 CIRTL Meeting. UArizona’s contribution, “Using Padlet to Generate Discussion in Professional Development Workshops,” reflected on using Padlet in our Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs), which transitioned from in-person to online this past fall.

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Heileman's Blockchain Project Wins Innovation Challenge

Feb. 16, 2021

Greg Heileman is leading an effort to make the transfer credit articulation process more efficient and equitable via blockchain. UnBlockEd is one of four project that won the first phase of the $900,000 Blockchain Innovation Challenge hosted by the American Council on Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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CIRTL Member Spotlight - Morgan Carter

Feb. 13, 2021

Morgan Carter is a postdoc in Dr. David Baltrus’ lab in the School of Plant Sciences. She loves teaching about molecular biology, microbes, and plants because these are all things that are often overlooked or invisible, but do really cool and important things. Her research largely focuses on plant-microbe-microbe interactions and her postdoc projects are on bacterial-fungal interactions, and she is currently investigating which genes are required for a bacterium to live inside of a fungus, a microbe within a microbe!

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