Tag archives for Service-Learning
“Be Like A Duck”
Sarah Young is an assistant professor of political science and serves as Assistant Director of Academic Engagement. I don’t need to repeat that this semester is unprecedented. We are all…
2017-2018 Research-Based Teaching Series Call for Proposals
UNG faculty and teaching staff are invited to submit a proposal to conduct a teaching workshop as part as the 2017-2018 RBTS. Workshops must feature activities and approaches founded in…
Research-Based Teaching Series 2016-2017
The Research-Based Teaching Series (RBTS) had its final workshop for the 2016-2017 academic year. Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CTLL), RBTS…
Finding the Classroom: Conceptualizing Reality in Higher Education
“Publics are asked to accommodate to an objectified ‘reality,’ marked off and demarcated in cost-benefit terms. It is reified, and ‘given’; we are all being required to sublimate our private…
Service-Learning and First-Year Writing: A HIP Adventure
Last academic year, I had the opportunity to participate in a Faculty Academy on High-Impact Practices facilitated by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CTLL). One high-impact practice identified…
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 Engaged University and Service-Learning
At the start of this academic year, President Jacobs announced that this was the “The Year of Engagement” at UNG. This vision was supported by the keynote speaker Karen Holbrook,…
UNG Faculty Academies for 2014
Faculty Academies We invite faculty and teaching staff to apply for one or more of the UNG Faculty Academies. These programs provide a sustained professional development opportunity and, when successfully…
Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education (CALHE)
Missouri Western State University is pleased to host the 9th Annual Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education (CALHE) March 20-22, 2014. There is one week left before the November…
USG Teaching and Learning Conference: Best Practices for Promoting Engaged Student Learning
CALL FOR PROPOSALS USG TEACHING AND LEARNING CONFERENCE: BEST PRACTICES FOR PROMOTING ENGAGED STUDENT LEARNING April 17-18, 2014 UGA Hotel and Conference Center Athens, GA Conference Website: You are invited…