News & Announcements

Spring 2021 Faculty Learning Community Registration

Jan. 14, 2021

The theme for this semester is focused on "learner-centered teaching." We will be using the book Learner-Centered Teaching: 5 Key Changes to Practice by Maryellen Weimer. Faculty learning communities begin the week of February 1st and run through March 29th.

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CIRTL Network Focuses on Grad Students & Postdocs to Teach

Jan. 10, 2021

UArizona has provided significant support and professional development to faculty. Now, through the UArizona CIRTL Network, we are expanding our work to include explicit support for graduate student and postdoctoral scholar professional development in teaching.

Read Dr. Burd's Welcome

Welcome to CIRTL

Jan. 1, 2021

We have successfully brought the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) to campus and, despite the difficulties of COVID-19, recruited our first cohort and laid the foundation for the CIRTL@UArizona.

Read more the Growing CIRTL Network

The University of Arizona Global Campus Officially Opens to About 35,000 Students

Dec. 1, 2020

The completed Global Campus agreement offers accessible, high-quality, online higher education.

Read more at UArizona News

OIA's Fall 2020 Theme | Preparing for Faculty Job Application Series

Aug. 19, 2020

As part of OIA’s mission to build capacity for excellent teaching on our campus, we offer a wide variety of workshops, webinars and facilitated online mini-courses to individuals who teach for the UA.

View OIA's Workshops & Classes

Suggested Syllabus Language for Fall 2020

Aug. 7, 2020

View fall 2020 syllabus language, organized by teaching modality. These are not policy requirements, but recommendations for communicating with students about the complexities of teaching and learning that will make this semester unique.

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OIA Mini-Course: Building Communities in Online and Hybrid Courses

June 17, 2020

July 6-10 | Participants in this 1-week, fully online mini-course will discover the impact that instructor presence, collaboration, personalized learning and social networking can have on the development of community in your online and hybrid courses.

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Service Awards - Congrats to Senior Vice Provost Gail Burd!

June 11, 2020

Service-award recipients represent stability and experience, and play an important leadership role in the continuity of operations for our campus. Thank you, Gail, for 35 years to the University of Arizona!

Full list of recipients and the video message from president

The university is one of six new institutions from the U.S. and Canada to join the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning.

June 8, 2020

The University of Arizona this fall will join a network of institutions in the United States and Canada dedicated to improving how graduate student and postdoctoral scholars are prepared for future faculty positions in STEM fields.

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