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Write@UNG Series 2016-2017
The Write@UNG workshop series has wrapped up its first year of workshops 2016-2017. This faculty development program stretches across five campuses and enriches scholarly productivity through a focus on research…
USG Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellows 2017-2018 Program
The second cohort of the University System of Georgia (USG) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellows had their orientation at the USG Teaching and Learning Conference in Athens, Georgia,…
UNG at the 2017 USG Teaching and Learning Conference
On April 5-7, 2017, the University System of Georgia (USG) hosted the USG Teaching and Learning Conference at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, Georgia. Faculty, staff, and…
Finding Time for Research
In any given week, University of North Georgia (UNG) faculty will attend meetings on such a range of topics that our neural cortex becomes a bit like pudding. By Friday…
What Scientific Inquiry Should Be…
During the 2017 ACE Annual Meeting, MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito gave a wonderful keynote about the importance of not losing the joy of discovery. Ito provides a thought-provoking…
Write@UNG
The Write@UNG is a new multifaceted faculty development program that stretches across five campuses and enriches scholarly productivity through a focus on research and writing skills. Workshops are facilitated by…
Advancing Civic and Intellectual Life through Boyer’s Model of Scholarship
"Colleges and universities are one of the greatest hopes for intellectual and civic progress.…I am convinced that for this hope to be fulfilled, the academy must become a more vigorous…
The Benefits of Faculty Writing Groups
Grab your “to do” list. Whether it’s mental, handwritten, or online, the list probably includes grading papers, preparing lessons for the week, and attending committee meetings (among other things). Have…
Getting Involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Like many others in higher education, I began my teaching career with no formal training in education. As a graduate student in Mathematics, I began teaching classes by trying to…
Weekly Work Habits and a Successful Academic Career
We become what we do. Our lives are shaped, in part, by the small choices we make every day. Thirty minutes a day adds up to two and a half per…