The provost’s office has announced the following promotions and grants of tenure, effective July 1, 2019: Lindsey Benes, nursing; Tenure, Promotion Madhuparna Kolay, business: Tenure, Promotion Jeffrey Meiser, political science: Tenure, Promotion Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences: Tenure, Promotion Zachary L. Simmons, psychological sciences: Tenure, Promotion For more information contact the provost’s office at x7105 or […]
Zachary Simmons
TLC From The TLC: Making Memories Stick
Now that October has arrived, most courses have had their first exams, according to Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. As students come in to review their scores, one common refrain echoes through the halls: “I knew that, but I just couldn’t remember it!” Though it might sound like an excuse, the empirical data is clear: human […]
TLC From The TLC: So What About Boundaries?
This week’s post to the Teaching and Learning Collaborative blog concerns a topic not every professor finds comfortable: boundaries, and not the dotted lines you see around countries on a map. Why are boundaries important? Where does your responsibility as a professor begin and end? What are the signs that you need a boundary adjustment? […]
TLC from the TLC: Flipping Your Classroom?
This week’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative article is by Zachary Simmons, psychological sciences. He addresses the idea of “flipped” classrooms, where course content is consumed primarily outside the classroom, with instructional time devoted to application or mastery of the material. “Nothing seems to polarize my students more than their opinion of ‘flipped classrooms,’” he says, and […]
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? […]
Welcome To New Faculty
A number of new faculty faces are gracing the University campus now that the fall semester is under way. Please be sure to welcome them to the campus community: College of Arts and Sciences: Ted Christopher Eckmann, environmental studies; Valerie Francisco, sociology; Zachary Simmons, psychology. Pamplin School of Business: Ian D. Parkman, marketing. School of […]