For this week’s Teaching & Learning tip, Lars Larson, English, suggests reading Margaret Renkl’s recent New York Times piece “Thank God for the Poets”: Deep in the bloom of spring, we are all tired from a hard year. Here in National Poetry Month, Renkl’s short essay invites instructors to reflect on the role of the lyric […]
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How to Use “How To Be An Antiracist”: TLC Tip of the Week
How might this year’s ReadUP/Schoenfeldt selection inform our teaching? In this week’s Teaching & Learning Collaborative tip, Lars Larson gathers a few ideas from Ibram X. Kendi’s powerful work How to Be an Antiracist. Please note that electronic copies of Kendi’s book can be accessed through the Clark Library here, and paper copies will be […]
Creative Writers Coming to UP this Fall
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to learn about the poets, novelists, essayists, and biographers coming to campus for free readings this semester, according to Lars Larson, English: Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson (this week!), five-time Oregon Book Award winner Tracy Daugherty, Lakota poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty, and the fall Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer Luis […]
New TLC Blog Entries: “Core Matters, Parts 3 & 4”
As part of an ongoing series of short essays on the Teaching & Learning Community Blog, two new pieces are ready to satisfy your core curriculum curiosity. Steve Mayer, chemistry, writes about the many ways chemistry classes contribute to the broader goals of a liberal arts education (while also fulfilling those pesky science requirements), and Heather Carpenter, environmental studies, writes […]
Thinking Through Teaching Quotations
This week’s Teaching and Learning website submission offers two-dozen quotations from various writers pondering the situation and purpose of teaching. As the quotations jostle, complement, and contradict each other, their philosophies may provoke faculty to think through and articulate their own classroom ideals. The Teaching and Learning website can be found here. For more information, […]
Teaching & Scholarship Faculty Award Winner Presentations, March 4
The Teaching and Scholarship Committee invites all faculty and staff to presentations offered by the University’s 2013 teaching and scholarship faculty award winners. Lars Larson, winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, will present “Dialectical Teaching in a Righteous Age,” and Russ Butkus and Steve Kolmes (pictured), winners of the Faculty Award for […]