Sunday Newsletter

February 5, 2023

Upcoming Events

Monday, February 6, 4-5pm How to publish arts-integrated and collaborative research with a2ru in BEH 235

Wednesday, February 8, 10am and Thursday, February 9, 1pm Assignments & Discussions: Providing Students Options to Demonstrate Learning Through WebCampus with Online Ed

Thursday, February 9, 11am-1pm Best Teaching Practices Expo in Student Union Ballroom

Monday, February 13, 4pm PTI Mentoring Group: Balancing Student Centeredness and Faculty Workload in BEH 240 and on Zoom

See our Events page for more Faculty Center happenings!

Online Education Spring 2023 Catalog of professional development opportunities

Other Upcoming Events and Opportunities from our Partners

NCFDD Events Calendar

Are you interested in a community of practice regarding GIS (geographic information systems)? Join us Friday, February 17th from 2:30-3:30 in BEH 126 or online (code to join GeoSysInfo23!).

Message from the Director

Best Teaching Practices Expo: Thursday, February 9, 11-1

Would you like to hear about a "less sad and intimidating" way to test student knowledge?

How about harnessing student altruism?

Join us for the Best Teaching Practices Expo at the Student Union Ballroom on Thursday, February 9 from 11am - 1pm. Lunch will be provided. Please click here for more information and to RSVP.

Distinguished presenters Alison Sloat, Andrew Kauffman, and Jorge Fonseca Cacho will be on a panel to discuss practices they've implemented in their teaching. You will also have the opportunity to peruse a poster session with 21 different posters from UNLV instructors. Each one will outline a teaching practice, describe how it addresses students’ needs, and provide evidence of its benefits to UNLV students.

You can preview posters now through DigitalScholarship@UNLV.

Take care,

Melissa Bowles-Terry

Faculty Center Director

The Office of Faculty Affairs and the Faculty Center are pleased to accept nominations for two awards:

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: This annual award program was established to recognize 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.
Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award: This award recognizes significant contributions to student learning by part-time teaching faculty.

The 2023 call for nominations is open from January 22 - February 24. Self-nominations are welcome.

Award information and application guidelines are available online. Award or application questions, please contact us at facultycenter@unlv.edu.

News You Can Use

How to publish arts-integrated and collaborative research with a2ru

a2ru Arts-integrated Research and Collaborations Publications

Join us for a roundtable with editorial reviewers from two journals supported by the international consortium Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru): Ground Works and Tradition-Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media in Higher Education.

They will discuss the latest publishing and conference presentation opportunities for creative research and projects. These opportunities include the recent Ground Works call for submissions about Creating Knowledge in Common, the upcoming announcement of a call for responses to Generative AI and the Arts in Tradition-Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media in Higher Education, and a2ru’s 2023 National Conference, “What’s Next? Imagining New Educational Futures For Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet,” at Penn State, October 19-21, 2023.

UNLV Faculty Center Lounge BEH 235

Monday, February 6, 4-5 pm

Contact: Yvonne.Houy@unlv.edu

Melissa Bowles-Terry, Director, melissa.bowles-terry@unlv.edu

Doris Blackwell, Program Officer, doris.blackwell@unlv.edu

Olivia Shepard, Administrative Assistant, olivia.shepard@unlv.edu

For more information, please contact 702-895-5318,

or email us at facultycenter@unlv.edu