Graduate Student Pedagogy Training Opportunities |
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One of our favorite initiatives in the Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence is graduate student training in pedagogy. We love working with graduate students who are just at the beginning of their academic careers, helping them to think about what kind of instructor they want to be and how to help them progress toward that goal. We have a number of different training opportunities available to students:
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Graduate courses and certificate in Teaching in Higher Education -- we offer 5 different online 3-credit courses, which combine to form the curriculum for our graduate certificate. Courses are offered fall and spring semesters
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Workshops -- our workshops offered throughout the academic year are open to graduate students and postdocs, as well as faculty. Departments can also request training workshops for their own academic units.
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Graduate Teaching Institute -- each year in May, we offer a 4-day on-campus pedagogy training institute just for graduate students and postdocs. This event is free but limited in capacity. Registration for this year's Graduate Teaching Institute (May 4-7) will open after spring break.
- Annual Teaching Symposium -- every fall, on the Monday before classes begin, we turn Marriott Library into a one-day conference on teaching. This event is free and open to graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff. Plan to join us on August 17! Registration will open mid-summer.
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Graduate Teaching Assistantship with CTE -- we also hire graduate students to train in faculty development and help support the services offered by the center. See below for an assistantship opportunity for the 2026-27 academic year, or apply here.
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CTE Graduate Teaching Assistantship Opportunity |
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The Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence (MBECTE) is seeking one graduate student to join our team as Graduate Teaching Assistant. This paid position begins in the Fall 2026 semester. The position is designed to be flexible with graduate students’ program responsibilities.
This unique opportunity allows you to strengthen the teaching and leadership components of your CV, increase your own knowledge of best practices in higher education pedagogy, and assist faculty and other graduate students refine their teaching skills. It may also provide exposure to online and hybrid teaching environments.
Graduate Teaching Assistant / Generalist (20hrs/week) – work closely with MBECTE staff to support instruction across disciplines on the Salt Lake City campus. Potential responsibilities include:
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- Conduct classroom observations, student focus groups, and consultations with instructors
- Create multimedia materials about higher education pedagogy
- Help prepare and present pedagogy workshops
- Assist MBECTE instructors in course instruction
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The benefits of working as a MBECTE Graduate Teaching Assistant include:
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Semester-based stipend, amount depending on # hours worked (Tuition Benefit Eligible for students who meet requirements set by Graduate School)
- Summer employment, paid hourly
- Professional training in observing, assessing, and providing feedback on teaching
- Access to dedicated work space in the Faculty Center in the Marriott Library
- Flexible work schedule to accommodate your other commitments
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Strong candidates will possess the following:
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- Experience as a teacher or teaching assistant in higher education
- Passion for supporting the U’s teaching mission through instructor development
- Interest in higher education pedagogy and effective teaching practices
- Confidence interacting with professors and instructors from many disciplines
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Ability to manage time and workload effectively
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To apply, submit the materials by March 20, 2026:
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- A letter of interest describing how you are suited to this position and why you are applying
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Teaching philosophy statement
- Teaching evaluations from the past two years, if available
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General Education Teaching Awards |
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The General Education Teaching Award recognizes excellent and innovative instruction that significantly contributes to the U's mission to provide undergraduate students with outstanding educational experiences in General Education (GE). Nominees for the award will demonstrate meaningful contributions to the GE Program at the University of Utah by providing students opportunities in the GE Curriculum through the GE Program Learning Outcomes (GELOs) to learn to Collaborate Effectively, Persist in Addressing Complex Problems, Reason and Act Ethically, Respond Creatively, and Actualize and Contribute.
Instructors being nominated for the award should have at least three years of experience teaching GE courses, which includes those carrying GE Core designations (AI, QL, WR1, WR2) and GE Breadth Area designations (FF, HF, LS, PS, BF). The award is open to all instructors (e.g., adjunct, graduate student instructors, career-line faculty, etc.) who meet the award criteria.
The nomination period for 2025 - 2026 is now open and extended until March 9, 2026. Self-nominations are welcomed, please send nominations to Lindsay Massman (lindsay.massman@utah.edu).
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Applied Sustainability Learning Faculty Survey |
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Do you work with the University community or surrounding communities? Do you use University of Utah campus facilities, operations, programs, or data in your teaching, research, or creative work? Would you like to?
The Office for Sustainability Education is assessing current engagement and interest among university faculty in Applied Sustainability Learning programming. This approach links academic coursework with campus operations, research, and community partners, allowing students to engage in work that addresses sustainability challenges while contributing to academic goals. Applied Sustainability Learning can take many forms—from using campus data in coursework, to independent study projects, to testing research ideas, designed experiments, or emerging technologies in campus buildings, landscapes, or processes.
Please take 5-8 minutes to share your thoughts by taking our survey here. The survey will be open for responses until March 12th. Thank you in advance for your time and feedback!
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Accessibility Office Hours |
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Upcoming CTE and Partner Workshops |
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CTE has prepared an Anonymous Midterm Course Feedback Survey that can be imported directly into your Canvas course — you can use it as is or edit it to add your own questions. Once imported and published, all you have to do is alert your students that it is there. If possible, give them time to do it in class to achieve maximum response rates. Then after your feedback window has closed, take some time to discuss your findings with your students and talk about what changes you can implement, and when, and why.
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Midterm grades are an optional grading tool available to faculty who teach undergraduate classes. These grades can help students better understand how they are doing in a class and make appropriate decisions around their continued enrollment, prior to the withdrawal deadline (March 6 for the Spring 2026 semester). If you would like to opt out of using midterm grading, no action is required.
Midterm grades will be viewable for students but will not be posted to their transcript and will not have any effect on GPA calculation.
How to Approve Midterm Grades
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- Midterm Grading will become available on February 23 until March 5.
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Midterm Grades are posted through the same tool that final grades are posted through.
- Go to cis.utah.edu click “View/Enter Grades”
- From View/Enter Grades, select the term, and grade roster type:
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You will see a list of classes you have grading access to, in the status, you will be able to see if midterm grading is available for the class.
Select the class for which you would like to approve midterm grades.
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- You will see a countdown at the top of the page for the deadline to approve midterm grades.
- You will see the class roster and a drop down for each student to approve a midterm grade.
- You will see an option to “Save” and an option to “Approve”
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“Save” will allow you to exit the grade roster without losing your progress. Students will be able to see entered grades after you click save.
- “Approve” will lock in all the midterm grades after you have entered a grade for every student on the roster.
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Course Materials for Summer Term |
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Action Required by March 20, 2026 for Summer 2026 to have textbooks ready for students.
Get Course Materials Ready for Students in 2 Easy Steps:
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Enter your textbook requests into Verba Collect using the personalized link emailed to you by the Campus Store. Enter the information for required textbooks including ISBN, Title, Author. We will select the digital version available, or if no digital version is available we will provide print textbooks. If you have already contacted the Store, thank you!
- Enable Course Materials in Canvas to create a reading list if you want to enable access to textbooks the library already owns, make physical Reserve requests, and/or request the library obtain access to print, electronic, and streaming materials at no cost to students.
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Our records indicate that you have been assigned to teach one or more courses for Summer 2026 based on the records from the Registrar Office. We hope to work with you on relaying to students the full cost of attendance by listing the required textbook costs in the Class Schedule at the time of registration, regardless of preferred purchasing source. The online course Textbook Advisor will guide you through the textbook adoption process at the University of Utah. In addition, course material consultations are available along with Learning Experience Design Cards. If you’ve already submitted your textbook needs directly to the Campus Store, please disregard this message.
If you work with a department coordinator, please continue to do so. Otherwise, please watch for a personalized link to come from our textbook adoption collection software Verba Collect. If you have not received a personalized link you may request one. The process is designed to be intuitive, but for more in depth help, please reach out to Kim Kilpatrick at kkilpatrick@campusstore.utah.edu or 1-3158
To research your estimated cost or obtain a textbook sample, utilize VitalSource Sampling.
For a cost estimate on custom digital course-packs, contact Kim Kilpatrick at the Campus Store, kkilpatrick@campusstore.utah.edu; 1-3158.
Kind regards,
coursematerials@utah.edu
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Digital Learning Technologies |
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Join us for Tech Tips Tuesday! Every other week features Canvas or Accessibility related tools, and Adobe Express Learning Kit, you can use in your teaching or personal projects. Check out the schedule and drop in for the topics that inspire you!
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Financial Wellness Center |
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Upcoming Funding Deadlines |
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