Sunday Newsletter

February 6, 2022

Upcoming Events

Monday, February 7, 4pm

Part-Time Instructors Mentoring Group: Time Management with Daniel Ogletree

Wednesday, February 9, 10am

Assignments & Discussions: Providing students options to demonstrate learning with Online Ed

Wednesday, February 9, 12pm

Mindfulness Meditation with Dr. Donna Costa

Thursday, February 10, 2pm

Assignments & Discussions: Providing students options to demonstrate learning with Online Ed

Thursday, February 10, 2pm

Best Teaching Practices Expo Panel with distinguished poster presenters

Friday, February 11, 1pm

Tenure Track Mentoring Group: UNLV Tenure & Promotion Committee AMA with current and past members of the UNLV T&P Committee

See our Events page for more Spring 2022 happenings!

Other Upcoming Events and Opportunities from our Partners

Message from the Director

Best Teaching Practices Expo Continues

Join us this week for the Best Teaching Practices Expo panel of distinguished presenters on Thursday, February 10 at 2pm. At this hybrid event, in Beam Hall 240 and on Zoom, we will hear from instructors selected by their peers as some of the most innovative and effective among those who shared posters for the Expo. We'll hear from the following outstanding faculty:

Haroon Stephen, Associate Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering & Construction: Learning Retention through Glossary Development
Amanda Pasinski, Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Psychology: Utilizing Asynchronous Video Discussions
Katie Rafferty, Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Life Sciences: Toward Building Science Literacy
Nicole Espinoza, Online Program Coordinator in Public Health: Accreditation Woes: Thinking Outside the Box for Program and Course Assessment Design—Competency and Outcome Rubrics in Canvas

I hope that you can join me, Provost Chris Heavey, and Vice Provost Janet Dufek to celebrate and learn from these faculty members. Register here, and we’ll see you on February 10th.

In the meantime, read about outstanding teaching practices by our UNLV colleagues and check out the 2022 posters in the Best Teaching Practices Expo.

See you soon,

Melissa Bowles-Terry

Director, Faculty Center

News You Can Use

Help celebrate the UNLV Writing Center's Birthday Week Feb 7th-11th!

Join us at our Quick Questions/Valentine's Day booth in the Student Union Feb 8th, 9th, and 10th. Stop by the Writing Center or visit us on Instagram @unlvwritingcenter for more festivities!

Don’t forget to tell your students!

Applications are open until Friday, February 25th for two teaching awards.

The Outstanding Teaching by Part-time Faculty (PTIs) Award recognizes significant contributions to student learning by part-time teaching faculty. Up to five awards of $1,000 will be given. See details on eligibility and application instructions in the Call for Applications from Part-Time Instructors.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award recognizes individuals who have achieved excellence in the scholarship of teaching and learning as demonstrated through research that focuses on evidence-based teaching practices that promote UNLV students' learning. The award recipient will receive a $2,000 award. See details on eligibility and application instructions in the Call for Applications and Nominations for Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Award.

The deadline for submission of materials for both awards is 5:00 p.m., Friday, February 25, 2022.