Faculty development

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Center seeks faculty advice to expand support

  • by Jenny Carrick and Julia Ann Easley

Faculty are invited to share how the Center for Educational Effectiveness, or CEE, can best help them meet their most challenging teaching needs as it strengthens support for their priorities in its second decade. 

“We want to make sure when we deliver services, we add value,” said Beth Broome, CEE’s leader and executive director for Teaching and Learning and STEM Initiatives. 

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Project Helping Instructors Improve Accessibility

  • by Julia Ann Easley

“As you can see from this slide …” may not be an uncommon expression used at lecterns to introduce an image.

But in classrooms or online, not every student may be able to see what’s on a screen well enough — or even at all — to learn from it.

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference returns for 9th year

  • by Ginger M Welsh

UC Davis faculty and instructors share research and discoveries to improve teaching and learning at the ninth Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (or SoTL) Conference in the ARC Ballroom Dec. 10. 

The committee planned the 2024 conference around the theme, “The SoTL Cycle: Innovate, Assess, Evolve,” which is dedicated to the celebration of the UC Davis community of educators. 

Jeanette B. Ruiz stands with a hand on her hip in the middle of Shields Library courtyard. She is wearing a blue T-shirt with a colorful graphic that says #firstgen college grad UC Davis.

Jeanette B. Ruiz named faculty lead for UC Davis First-Generation Initiative

  • by Jenny Carrick

First-generation UC Davis students and their allies gathered Nov. 8 to form a human No. 1, showcasing the first-generation community at UC Davis as part of the National First-Generation College Celebration. Expanding that support to include first-generation faculty, UC Davis Undergraduate Education recently named Associate Professor of Teaching Jeanette B. Ruiz to lead the First-Generation Initiative into its next phase.

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