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Want to Help Professors Become Better Teachers? Find Them a Mentor

June 28, 2018

For day-to-day teaching challenges, nothing beats an ally who has been there, done that -- learning about the small things from Kasi Kiehlbaugh completely changed how Lecturer Justin Schluntz thought.

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Departments Transform Classrooms With Help From New Funding Program

June 20, 2018

If your department has a drab and boring classroom in need of an upgrade, the ISLE Program offers up to $50,000 in matching funds for departmental classroom renovations.

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Report Urges Development and Evaluation of Approaches that Integrate STEMM Fields with Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

May 7, 2018

Gail Burd is a member of a National Academies committee that just released a report examining the trend in higher education that integrates humanities and arts with sciences, engineering and medicine.

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Co-Teaching Leads to Better Learning – for Students and Instructors

April 28, 2018

Classes that had nationwide failure rates of 50 percent had passage rates of nearly 95 percent when the co-teaching approach was used, says Paul Blowers, who joined the UA faculty in 1999.

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More Than a Thousand Employees Celebrate Milestones Up to 45 Years

April 18, 2018

Four Academic Affairs employees will receive service awards this Thursday: Congratulations Pam Coonan (15 Years), Nina Bates (15 Years), Abbie Sorg (10 Years) and Nicole Gonzalez (10 Years).

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Transforming STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions in the United States: A Consensus Report

April 12, 2018

Guada Lozano, CUES director, works with Marla Franco and Vignesh Subbian in the STEM in HSI working group to achieve broader impacts for UA.

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UA Recognized for Service to Hispanic Students

April 5, 2018

The UA joins 105 four-year public institutions and only a few from Research I and the Association of American Universities that meet the criteria for eligibility for HSI designation.

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Four Professors Honored for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

March 26, 2018

Four UA professors were recognized for excellence in teaching and mentoring at the annual Awards of Distinction ceremony on Monday, March 26, 2018.

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Employees Asked to Encourage Participation in Student Survey

March 23, 2018

NSSE results can provide you with a wealth of data to inform accreditation self-studies, benchmarking efforts, faculty and staff development programs, strategic plans, improvement initiatives, recruitment materials, student support initiatives, and more.

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