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CLJC Pre-Law Advisor and Specialist, Larry Hayman, Esq. was awarded for his work in the Pre-Law Learning Community on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at the OHIO FYRST Office’s Learning Community Awards Banquet. Hayman received the “Outstanding Learning Community Instructor” Award, along with three other instructors, after being nominated by his […]

By Dr. Kim Thompson Environmental and Plant Biology A Faculty Learning Community on Improving Writing Assignments met last semester to identify strategies for improving student writing across disciplines. Our group, led by Kim Thompson (Environmental & Plant Biology), included Matthew Barrile (Modern Languages), Christina Beers (Economics), Lindsay Dhanani (Psychology), Chris […]

While women’s enrollment in some STEM fields such as the biological and life science has increased over the last several years, there are many fields in which women remain underrepresented. These include some of the traditional STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and include fields such as Economics. The […]

Arriving at the College of Arts & Sciences in 2012, Dean Bob Frank found transformative power in one word: Yes. “Departments and faculty had been hunkering down through the recession, and I tried to open a space for innovation and experimentation,” he said. “People expected a response of ‘no’ to […]

The College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for Faculty Learning Communities for the 2015-16 academic year. Faculty Learning Communities are interdisciplinary faculty groups engaged in an active, collaborative, semester- or year-long initiative. Proposals for the Faculty Learning Communities to be sponsored in 2015-16 should focus on a topic within: […]

The College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) focusing on academic writing, grant proposals, scholarship of teaching and learning, and other forms of scholarship, to be sponsored during spring semester, 2015. The application deadline is Nov. 24, 2014. Faculty learning communities are interdisciplinary faculty groups […]

The “Challenges in Teaching” Faculty Learning Community is open to tenure-track, recently-tenured, and Group II faculty. Applications are due by Oct. 1. Members will discuss challenges to effective pedagogy. Depending on the interests of the group, these may include the following: Teaching sensitive subjects that center on political, religious, or […]