Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, moderates an all-star panel of experts to discuss the question of humor in comics from a variety of professional perspectives on Thursday, February 9, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall room 120. Panelists include Diana Schutz (editor of Sin City, Grendel, and Usagi Yojimbo), Mark Russell (God is […]
Karen Eifler
Don’t Miss Garaventa Center’s Holiday Thirst Friday, Dec. 2
Need a little holiday cheer before finals? Join us for Thirst Friday on December 2 in the Garaventa Center (Franz 330), any time from 4 to 6 p.m. You’ll find great conversation, holiday libations of all sorts, and best of all, a tasting menu featuring an astonishing number of Oreo options! Extra credit for […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Early Alert
This week’s TLC Tip of the Week comes from early alert coordinator Gina Loschiavo, who has visited just about every department on campus this fall and fielded several recurring questions from faculty as they strive to implement Early Alert in their teaching and advising with students. We thought doing this in the form of an […]
TLC from the TLC: Rethinking How Office Hours Are Kept
This week’s selection from the Teaching and Learning Collaborative comes from Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. Like many UP professors, he does his best to carve office hours in stone, held invioalate for the good of his students, but life always seems to do its best to wreak havoc on his best laid plans. Sound familiar? […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Using Failure as a Chance to Teach
The Shepard Academic Resource Center supports the learning of all students, and staff are always alert to news of promising classroom practices that get students to take responsibility for their learning. Learning assistance counselor Br. Tom Giumenta, C.S.C., assembled a brief essay that combines emerging insights from neuroscience with the Holy Cross charism of Hope. “So […]
Order ReadUP Books by Friday, Nov. 4
This year’s Read UP selection is Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, according to Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center. Students and the entire UP community will have access to the book and several discussion groups will take place in residence halls and the Clark Library. The author will be on campus for a free public […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week
Many faculty look for ways to get students to read assignment requirements more carefully and take opportunities to revise seriously. This article from Faculty Focus provides four straightforward strategies for getting college students to use annotation of their own work to show differences among drafts, links to assignment requirements, promote a growth mindset (practice can make perfect, […]
TLC Tip of the Week: Making Group Work Work
As the term unfolds, many professors will be asking students to work productively in groups. While there’s lots of evidence to support collaborative learning, both in terms of knowledge gained and essential work skills honed, many professors are also faced with groups that don’t gel or fall under the dominion of one hyper-achiever, and the occasional […]
Toast The Start of the School Year: Thirst Friday, Sept. 9
All faculty and staff are warmly invited to the first Thirst Friday of the year on September 9. Haven’t been before? Expect great conversation, tasty treats (don’t miss our new Cheetos tasting menu) and libations of all sorts to toast the start of the year, not to mention the best view on campus. Thirst Friday regulars – 17 extra credit […]
New Podcast: Fr. Tom’s “The Sacredness of the Ordinary”
Several people who attended Fr. Tom Hosinski’s final UP lecture, “The Sacredness of the Ordinary” (and many who weren’t able to attend) have asked if it would be available as a podcast. A downloadable podcast of the lecture is now available at this link, along with a transcript. For more information, contact Karen Eifler (eifler@up.edu) […]