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Sep 03
Student Learning Loss
With Covid19 came a huge faculty transition, with those who had never taught on-line forced to make a sudden and unexpected shift to distance teaching. The transition focused on shifting course content online quickly, with speed of transition as the main goal. Because of that, and because of the multiple layers of stress (including stress …
Oct 02
UAS DASHBOARD Data Training with Kristen Handley
Here is an important training that was presented by Kristen Handley, who is the Institutional Effectiveness Director at UAS. This hour long training takes you through a number of dashboards that will help get you the data you need on the Institutional Effectiveness – Student Data website. Here is a breakdown of what you will …
Sep 25
14 Seminars For Job Seekers
The UAS Sitka campus Title III Complete to Compete grant program has a series of Zoom seminars for job seekers. They are for new college graduates, current college students, or anyone considering a job change or looking for work. The presenter of the first eight is Deborah Rydman, Career Services Coordinator/VA School Certifying Official for the University …
Apr 17
Social Distancing
Yes, social distancing is the new way of life, and is helping to slow the spread of COVID-19. With this virus being able to spread prior to an individual showing symptoms, it’s an important practice, especially for those in greater risk categories. Here are tips for social distancing from the CDC: Follow guidance from authorities …
Apr 10
One Stop Reference Guide
Wow, it’s been a crazy few weeks, with a lot of changes. How do we keep up? I am hoping to help you, with links to some of the sites that have the changing/updated information. I have also added other links that might be interesting to you right now. You can click on the link, …
Mar 23
Moving Forward – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Hi everyone. I am writing this FLC with my son in mind. He is a first year Doctoral student at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. His degree program is percussion performance, and his instruments are housed at the school. He left for Spring Break with a plan for what he was going …
Feb 14
Accessible Language Helps More Students Succeed
-Leah Mason, from the UAS-Sitka Campus, brings us today’s Faculty Learning Corner. How often do we question the accessibility of our language? Most of us would agree that plain language is important in public communications – we want people to understand what we are trying to tell them, right? We rarely think about whether plain …
Jan 10
Anxiety
Students can have a hard time with the pressure of University studies. This is important for you, as a Faculty member to know, because you have immediate contact with students. Anxiety can cause students to miss class as they become overwhelmed by the many challenges they face. Sometimes anxiety is triggered by a number of …
Aug 26
Lending Library Moving to Egan Library!
Over the past 5 years of this Title III grant we’ve acquired an excellent library on topics including Understanding by Design, Peer Review, Assessment, Teaching Online, well, you get the picture, we’ve collected a broad array of books. Many of these books Mary and I used when teaching ED593 so faculty who took that course have already …