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4th Nov, 2009 | Source : AAC&U News
In 2005, Amanda Bernal-Carlo, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Hostos Community College in the Bronx, was leading a committee charged with motivating faculty to reenvision their pedagogical practices and improve student learning outcomes. So Bernal-Carlo, who is now acting associate dean for faculty development and curriculum, posed a question to the committee members: What are your dreams as educators? The responses delighted Bernal-Carlo with their creativity and innovation. “About 58 percent of our Hostos faculty have at least fifteen years of service, and they have an incredible sense of creativity and joy in being educators,” she says. “We wanted to reward them and offer them opportunities to implement their ideas.” Bernal-Carlo and Provost Lucinda Zoe and their colleagues at the Center for Teaching and Learning started a Committee on Beautiful Ideas to solicit and review grant proposals from faculty and award mini-grants, using federal Title V funds Hostos had been awarded. Faculty members could submit their “beautiful ideas” in teaching and learning, and winning proposals would receive funding and release time to put the proposals into practice.
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6th Oct, 2009 | Source : AAC&U News
During the 1998-99 academic year, Victoria Morse and her husband, Bill North, experienced the “two-body problem” firsthand. The term, which originally was coined to explain a phenomenon in physics, has come into popular use to describe the problem academic couples face in finding two fulfilling academic positions in the same geographic location. That year, Morse and North…
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2nd Sep, 2009 | Source : Kevin Hovland, Brenda A. Kirkwood, Caleb Ward, Marian Osterweis, Gillian B. Silver
The Educated Citizen and Public Health (ECPH) initiative is premised on the idea that an understanding of public health issues is a critical component of good citizenship, and that by developing this understanding, students will learn to take responsibility for building healthy societies. Historically, the programmatic study of public health in colleges and universities has been largely…
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on 14th Aug 2009 09:59
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