Author: Jody Greene
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Designing or redesigning courses? There’s no need to go it alone!
Support and advice in planning and designing courses and syllabi is easily available to faculty, and it’s all accessible from their office or home.
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Who’s afraid of multifactor authentication?
Over the next six months, UCSC is transitioning to mandatory MFA for most campus online systems that require a Gold password.
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Mentoring for a new millennium
Until recently, higher education faculty and staff were largely left to intuit the qualities of a good mentor or to replicate the mentoring habits–skillful or unskillful–that they themselves experienced as undergraduates, graduate students, or postdoctoral researchers.
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New website offers resources to support campus teachers
A new campus website connects faculty, graduate student Instructors, and teaching assistants with a host of resources, both on campus and off, to support their teaching.
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Student feedback on teaching: A new platform and a new approach
Starting this fall, the campus has a new way to gather and use student feedback about courses and instructors. In addition to supporting end-of-term course surveys, the new system offers more ongoing and active ways for instructors to collect feedback from students.
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New teaching center brings expert on campus climate to campus
The new Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at UC Santa Cruz celebrates its inaugural convocation on May 18 with a visit from alumna Susan Longerbeam (Merrill, ’84), a specialist in classroom cultural climate issues.