2025 News
MAR 2025 | Diana Daly Honored with OER Architect Award for Transformative Contributions to Open Education
College of Information Science Associate Professor of Practice Dr. Diana Daly has been recognized with the OER Architect Award by the OERizona Network, honoring her outstanding contributions to the creation, enhancement and implementation of open educational resources (OER) in Arizona.
Daly’s work exemplifies the power of OER to transform education. Since 2020, she has built and sustained Humans R Social Media (HRSM), an open textbook that serves as the foundation for her general education course, Social Media and Ourselves. Through iVoices, a media lab Daly created to empower students to document and share their experiences with technology, learners help shape the textbook itself—contributing essays, videos, images and glossary terms that future students engage with in their coursework.
FEB 2025 | $8.5M gift powers ongoing impact of CUES on university education
An anonymous $8.5 million gift has created an endowment to support the Center for University Education Scholarship. CUES programs focus on advancing university teaching and learning. This can take many forms: funding faculty to undertake research into new teaching methods, bringing people together from different colleges and disciplines for workshops, structuring collaboration across the university and more.
"CUES was born out of a cause shared among faculty and leadership on our campus and an anonymous donor: the university learning experience," said Guadalupe Lozano, CUES director and holder of the Center for University Education Scholarship Endowed Chair. "Realizing our mission in practice is a collaborative effort sustained by many."