2019 News
DEC 2019 | CUES Taking Preproposals for 'Spanning Boundaries Challenge'
The Center for University Education Scholarship is accepting pre-proposals from interdisciplinary faculty teams for a new program designed to address challenges impacting University education.
The Spanning Boundaries Challenge is the newest program within CUES, whose mission is to support scholarship and innovation in University teaching and learning practices. The winning team will receive up to $100,000 for two years starting in the fall of 2020.
SEP 2019 | Building Community and Keeping Students' Attention: Teaching and Learning Scholar Offers Advice to UA Faculty
A nationally recognized scholar on teaching and learning gave UA faculty advice on stoking students' curiosity, fostering community in the classroom, building patterns and structure in teaching routines and more during presentations on campus last week.
James Lang, a professor of English and director of the D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, was brought to campus by the Center for University Education Scholarship. His presentations, given Thursday and Friday, were designed to help faculty start the semester off right and gain skills to be more effective teachers, especially with distracted students.
JUN 2019 | UA Cross Fertilizing Academic Disciplines
Three professors – a scientist, a sociologist and a humanist – walk into the same classroom…
That may sound like the start of a joke, but it isn’t. It is exactly what is happening in a new general education course being test-driven at the University of Arizona.
The project is part of the university-wide CUES (Center for University Education Scholarship) project in the honors college that will inform the UA Strategic Initiative 1.2A Design a new Gen Ed curriculum. Three professors – one each from the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities – are cooperatively teaching a diverse group of mainly freshmen students who, like their professors, come from across the intellectual spectrum.
JUN 2019 | CUES Fellows Explore Ways to Transform Teaching and Learning
The Center for University Education Scholarship has welcomed a new class of Distinguished Fellows – and a new director.
This cohort, the center's second, is the first under CUES' new director, Guadalupe Lozano, who took the position about a year ago. Debra Tomanek, professor emerita of molecular and cellular biology, led the center after it was established in late 2016.
Lozano has been on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics since 2009, and is an associate research scientist and associate research professor. She is also director of external relations and evaluation for the School of Mathematical Sciences.