Newsletter January 2, 2025
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SPRING 2025 STARTUP EDITION

At the Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence, we hope you had a restful winter break and have a great start to Spring 2025! A few reminders as you’re getting your courses ready:

  • University of Utah PPM 6-100 requires for ALL U of U courses that instructors will  post course syllabi that include course outcomes and learning objectives, course expectations for earning credit and grades, and if applicable, a preliminary schedule for major examinations and assignments. Per policy, this information must be made available to students every semester, one week in advance of classes starting. If you have not already posted your syllabi to the class schedule via CIS, please see the instructions on our Syllabus Design page and take this step immediately. 
  • In addition to instructions on posting syllabi to CIS, our Syllabus Design Page also contains a core syllabus template. MBECTE has created a webpage listing up-to-date university policies and resources for required syllabi posting, as well as additional syllabus information and suggestions. 
  • If instructors have additional questions about syllabus requirements or recommendations, they are welcome to schedule a consult with a team member from MBECTE.

You can request a consult with CTE staff for more in-depth course and pedagogy questions. Digital Learning Technologies also offers a Pre-Semester Checklist for getting started in Canvas, as well as several Canvas Help links. 

 

SPRING 2025 CTE WORKSHOPS

January 22nd
February 12
 

COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING

The reclassification taskforce for the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement invites you apply to present your community partnership projects at the Community Engagement Showcase sponsored by Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Mitzi Montoya, Ph.D. and the new Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO of University of Utah Health Bob Carter, M.D., Ph.D. 

Finalists will be chosen to give a 5 minute “lightning pitch” on their partnership work during the event. A total of $10,000 will be awarded to help continue great community engaged work happening at the University of Utah. Applications will be reviewed utilizing this rubric developed in the context of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, which seeks examples of “high-quality community engagement partnerships are mutually beneficial, reciprocal and asset-based.” University of Utah faculty and staff who apply are encouraged to include their community partners’ and students’ voices in both the application and pitch. This submission process is also a data collection method for us, as all submissions – regardless of whether they are included in the showcase – will be considered for inclusion in the application.

We ask that university community members please share this call widely and apply with any of your community-engaged projects HERE by January 21st. We encourage those who are interested to please review the rubric for this process prior to submitting. Finalists will be notified by January 31st and invited to pitch at the Community Engagement Showcase in late February. 

 

COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING UPCOMING EVENTS

Community Based Participatory Research Workshop Series

The Spring 2025 CEL Workshop Series will be on Community Based Participatory Research and will be led by Dr. Ana Antunes, who has recently published the book All In: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change

Workshop 1: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change

Join Dr. Ana Antunes as she discusses her newly published book All In: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change. Learn how to do Community Engaged Scholarship well through examples from the field.

Friday, January 24; 11:45-12:45; virtual

Zoom Registration

Workshop 2: Youth Participatory Action Research

Interested in conducting Youth Participatory Action Research? Dr. Ana Antunes will guide workshop participants through the basics utilizing examples from her own work with youth in Salt Lake City.

Friday, February 21; 11:45-12:45; virtual

Zoom Registration

Workshop 3: Youth Voices: Research by Youth for Youth

Hear from local youth conducting research about the research process, what they learned, and their hopes for the future of community based research.

Friday, March 28; 11:30-1:00pm; GC 4490

Register for lunch

 

OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) is excited to announce the Education Series for Spring 2025.  The OUR Education Series includes topics of interest for undergraduate student researchers and their faculty mentors. These events are open to all and are designed specifically with undergraduate students in mind.  Faculty are welcome to incorporate these events into their classes and/or encourage their students to participate.  

 

GRADUATE TEACHING CERTIFICATE

MORE INFO HERE
 

UPCOMING DATES AND DEADLINES

Applications due for University Teaching Grants: January 27, March 7

 
 
 

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