2022 News

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Guadalupe Lozano, CUES Director and Endowed Chair, was quoted in the second edition of James Lang's book, Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.

Dr. Lozano's quote (pg. 175), which comes from an essay written for The Conversation, highlights the value and importance of viewing incoming students from an asset-based perspective:

“there are two views to take with incoming students—a deficit view or an asset view. The first sees students’ weaknesses: what they lack. An asset view sees their strengths: what students bring to the table in terms of their culture, identity and knowledge.” (Lozano 2020)

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The Center for University Education Scholarship has announced this year's distinguished fellows. The three members of the fellowship program's fifth cohort will take on topics including personalized adaptive learning, the impact of personalized reading formats and how video production might improve student engagement.

The center also announced its second Spanning Boundaries Challenge team. The theme for this year's challenge is civic engagement and service learning. The grant funds multidisciplinary collaborations addressing educational grand challenges for up to $100,000 over two years. This year's project will be funded for two years.

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W.A. Franke Honors College Assistant Professor of Practice, Dr. Caitlyn Hall, is an environmental engineer with a passion for interdisciplinary thinking and community-focused science.  She and her team of faculty and staff from across the University of Arizona were recently awarded the 2022 CUES Spanning Boundaries grant for their project, Community Stories of Sustainability and Resilience: Sonoran Desert and Baja Regions. 

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School of Art’s Nicole Antebi has been selected for the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) 2022 Spanning Boundaries Team.  Faculty and staff from Biosphere 2, CAPLA and the W.A. Franke Honors College will engage students, faculty and Borderland communities in community-driven research around sustainable food and water solutions.

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Professor Jessica Retis, a globally recognized scholar in Latinx media and bilingual journalism, has been appointed director of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences announced today.  Retis, director of the school’s Bilingual Journalism master’s program, will take over duties from Interim Director Michael McKisson on July 1.

“I want to thank Dr. Retis for her willingness to take on this role,” College of SBS Dean JP Jones said in a statement to faculty and staff. “I'm pleased that the School of Journalism will continue to be in excellent hands moving forward.”

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This award recognizes superior and innovative teaching in lower-division undergraduate courses.

Diana Daly teaches the popular general education course ESOC 150B1: “Social Media and Ourselves.” In the course, students construct and share their stories of identity and technology.

With support from the Center for University Education and Scholarship (CUES), Diana launched the iVoices Media Lab in 2020 with the goal of channeling student narratives into curricula around technology.  She is also executive producer of the podcast Social Media and Ourselves, which records students’ own experiences and reflections to supplement and disrupt current scholarly understanding of social media.