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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning colloquium - Wednesday, May 15 at 10 a.m. in 367 HUB

May 7, 2013

The term "flipped classroom" has come into academic discourse to describe classrooms in which professors, instead of lecturing, expect their students to listen to lectures online before class, and to spend class time discussing assigned texts or working on course-related problems. A more conventional "flipped classroom" could be just to expect students to have read the material before class and to spend the class in discussion or on problems. Three practitioners of the "flipped classroom" approach, Jack Eichler (Department of Chemistry), Perry Link (Department of Comparative Literature), and Jacqueline Shea Murphy (Department of Dance) will discuss how they teach and what benefits the "flipped classroom" can bring for students and faculty.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 15 at 10 a.m. in 367 HUB for this Scholarship of Teaching and Learning colloquium.

Jack Eichler's slides on the "flipped classroom" can be downloaded from the link below. Jack's slides include addresses to many websites offering cases, group work, and problem-based learning activities for "flipped classrooms." Flipped Classroom PowerPoint

UE Symposium's Best Presentation Winners

May 2, 2013

Congratulations to the winners for best poster and best oral presentation at this year's UCR Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium! Ashwin Sharma, Biology undergraduate student, has won the Best Poster Presentation award for the poster entitled "Effects of Paternal Condition on Immune Response in Male California Mice". He is mentored by Professor Wendy Saltzman, Department of Biology. And Benjamin Goodwin, Biology undergraduate student, has won the Best Oral Presentation award for his paper entitled "The Effects of Third Hand Smoke on the Liver." He is mentored by Professor Manuela Martins-Green, Cell Biology & Neuroscience.

Pilot Leadership Pathway on Leadership Funded for 2013 - 2015

April 25, 2013

UE announced today that it would fund four professors to develop a leadership pathway program. The pathway concept identifies three linked courses that students can take in an area that crosscuts conventional departmental lines and is widely recognized as important to society. The pathway concept also includes the requirement that students participate in a related co-curricular activity.

The call for proposals requested proposals on leadership, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, or the creative process.

The funded leadership pathway was proposed by Professors Roger Conway (School of Business Administration), Ronald O. Loveridge (Department of Political Science), Thomas Sy (Department of Psychology), and Elaine Wong (School of Business Administration). The proposal was reviewed by members of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In their letter, the Academy characterized the proposal as "extremely thoughtful" and as drawing on "a roster of outstanding teachers."

UE has award the leadership pathway $24,000 to bring in outside speakers, to host dinners, to provide opportunities for students to assess their leadership strengths and potential, and to provide supplies for group projects. The leadership pathway is funded for two years, academic years 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Courses offered in the leadership pathway will include: (1) Foundations of Leadership, (2) Leadership Discovery, and (3) Leadership Laboratory. Students who complete the leadership pathway will be recognized in a spring ceremony as Chancellor's Leadership Fellows.

Students who are interested in participating in the leadership pathway program should contact Madina Brammer . Interested students should indicate their names, majors, GPAs, and email addresses.

Students will be admitted to the leadership pathway by application. Online applications will be available in June. A Scotmail notice will be sent to all students when applications are available online.