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Learning Resource Center

Study Skills Workshop Dates

September 22, 2014

giumenta Please remind your students about these upcoming study skills workshop dates.

Time management skills will be discussed on Monday, September 22, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Center Room 207.

Long term comprehension will be covered on Thursday, September 25, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Center Room 207.

For more information, please contact Bro. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., learning resource center, at 8716.

Filed Under: 09-22-2014, Academics, Students Tagged With: Bro. Thomas Giumenta, Learning Resource Center

Summer Writing Center Availability

May 26, 2014

Staff and faculty portraitsThe Writing Center (in Franz 120, the Learning Resource Center) is available to your summer students as a resource for their writing assignments. In contrast with regular semesters, where students make appointments via an online schedule, summer appointments are made via email on an as-needed basis. Writing@up.edu is the general e-mail through which students can arrange an appointment with any of  four writing assistants this term (Megan Lester, Sara McCrohan, Erin Savoia, Andrea Turel). See the Writing Center website at www.up.edu/lrc/writing/ for information about  writing resources, and for questions contact Lars Erik Larson, English, at larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 05-19-2014, 05-26-2014, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Lars Erik Larson, Learning Resource Center, Writing Center

Learning Assistance For Summer Session No. 1

May 12, 2014

giumenta copyDuring the initial weeks of the first summer session, the Learning Assistance Program will offer individual consults on time management, test taking, note taking, reading strategies, reduction of test anxiety, and memory skill development. Individual appointments may be made with Bro. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., at this link: http://tinyurl.com/kqm9ffn.

Filed Under: 05-12-2014, Academics, Health Center Tagged With: Br. Thomas Giumenta C.S.C., Learning Resource Center

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Hannah Pick, Dundon-Berchtold Institute, published a review of Yuval Levin’s A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus: How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream through the journal of Christian Higher Education (22 January, 2021; DOI: 10.1080/15363759.2020.1865123).

Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, was featured in the Portland Business Journal magazine February 26 edition for her participation in the panel discussion on “Organizational Transformation – The Impact of COVID on the Future of Work.”

Katie Danielson, education, published “Enacting content-rich curriculum in early childhood: The role of teacher knowledge and pedagogy.” Early Education and Development, 32(3), 443-458. doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2020.1753463

Alice Gates, social work, presented on March 3, 2021 as part of the University of Minnesota School of Social Work 2021 Research Colloquium Series.  Her paper was titled “Engaging equity and critical race perspectives in community-based research.”

Jordy Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, published Assessing resilience of a dual drainage urban system to redevelopment and climate change. Journal of Hydrology. 2021. 596. 126101.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, was an invited participant at Envisioning and Enacting an Inclusive and Diverse STEM Professoriate: Aligning the Recruitment and Retention of Diverse STEM Faculty, an APLU Think Tank, virtual.

Hillary Gaudio and Randy Hetherington, education, presented Inequity in the classroom: Improving teacher training by listening to completer voice. Virtual paper presented at the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators (ORATE) conference.

Randy Hetherington, education, co-presented Training transformative leaders: Valuing teacher wellness in complex change. Virtual paper presentation at the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education (AILACTE) conference.

Jacqueline Waggoner, Randy Hetherington, Hillary Gaudio, Bruce Weitzel, James Carroll, education, presented Inequity and the reality of teacher preparation: Hearing the voices of completers. Virtual paper presentation at the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education (AILACTE) conference.

Bruce Weitzel, Hillary Gaudio, Jacqueline Waggoner, James Carroll, Randy Hetherington, education, presented The completer voice: Inequity revealed. Virtual paper presentation at the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) conference.

James Carroll, Randy Hetherington, Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Gaudio, Bruce Weitzel, education, presented Educator preparation in traumatic stress. Virtual paper presentation at the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) conference.

Randy Hetherington, education, co-presented Interrelated leadership: Valuing teacher impact in a complex school. Virtual paper presentation at the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) conference.

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