It was not so long ago, back in 2015, that UP was shocked by four suicides in less than nine months: three students and one alumnus on the UP staff. Partially in response to those tragic events, through the 2015-16 academic year an Ad Hoc Panel on Mental Health convened to research and recommend ways…Continue Reading Mentally Healthy: More Of What Faculty (Might?) Need to Know
This essay by Andrew Guest, Ph.D., Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychological Sciences at UP, is the first in a series of short pieces that offer faculty across the campus an insider’s tour of one of the courses that make up UP’s Core program. Since the Core involves almost a third of the curriculum for every…Continue Reading Core Matters: PSY 101 – Come on and tell me, who are you?
Starting in the 2017-2018 academic year, as UP began a process to revitalize its liberal arts core curriculum, one of the most frequent comments I’ve heard is that the core has simply become a “checklist.” People still like the idea of the core, and people still believe in the value of the liberal arts. But…Continue Reading Core Matters: A (Re) Introduction to the UP Core Curriculum
Each fall the Teaching & Learning Collaborative puts together a tri-fold brochure that contains all the offices (and their contact info!) that have answers to your teaching questions. Click here to download the 2018-2019 version….Continue Reading TLC Brochure: One-Stop For Your UP Teaching Questions
When I first began using digital notes, I was seriously impressed with the positive impact on my work and learning. You see, I have always been a poor organizer of paper notes. Even if I carefully wrote down key points or things I needed to remember, the information invariably ends up lost, crumpled up, and…Continue Reading There Has Never Been a Better Time to Try Digital Notes