2023 News
SEP 2023 | Guadalupe Lozano designated as inaugural Endowed Chair for UArizona Center for University Education and Scholarship
Dr. Guadalupe (Guada) Lozano has been designated as the inaugural Endowed Chair for the Center for University Education and Scholarship (CUES). The center, established in 2016 through a $3M endowment from an anonymous donor, fosters faculty engagement with the scholarship of teaching and learning through competitively awarded distinguished fellowships, as well as other grants and events.
“I am thankful to hear and witness first-hand how CUES inspires and helps faculty blossom, amplifying their perspectives and enriching their pursuits on research in teaching and learning,” said Lozano. “This is at the core of what CUES was created to do. Seeing it unfold illuminates where we are and where we are going.”
SEP 2023 | ‘Spanning Boundaries Challenge’ Grant Unites Design Students from Arizona and Sonora
Located 250 miles south of the University of Arizona, the city of Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico, has the opportunity to become a hub for sustainable design. Thanks to a 2022 Center for University Education Scholarship Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grant, landscape architecture and architecture students from UArizona and the University of Sonora (UNISON) came together last semester to further explore green infrastructure in the capital city of Sonora.
The grant was awarded with the goal of embedding civic engagement and service learning into existing courses by engaging students, faculty and borderland communities in community-driven research around sustainable food and water solutions.
SEP 2023 | “Bilingual and bicultural students have a broader perspective of society.” Interview with Jessica Retis
[Jessica] Retis finds the possibility of leading groups of teachers interesting since it can facilitate and coordinate a pedagogical perspective that she prefers to think of as “understanding of reality” rather than as critical. This explains why she has not only sought out bicultural teaching, but also undertaken a transition towards the digital world of a career that was designed for the press.
To do this, she sought subsidies, such as CUES, the acronym for Center for University Education Scholarship, that would allow her to implement a master's program as well as research projects such as her work on the pedagogy of bilingual journalism in the United States, in which she is preparing a report entitled Bilingual Journalism Education in the United States: Development, Implementation and Assessment.
JUN 2023 | CUES announces 2023 distinguished fellows
The Center for University Education Scholarship has announced its sixth cohort of distinguished fellows. This year's fellows will focus on topics including public service in the borderlands region, quantitative environmental science and using cybersecurity datasets in course design.
"The 2023 fellows have raised the bar on what scholarship of teaching and learning can be on our campus and for our community," said Guadalupe Lozano, CUES director and endowed chair. "Their projects reflect genuine commitment to students and to research on teaching and learning, validating the promise of CUES' newest effort, our SOTL signature workshop series."