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Graduate Writing Program for UO Graduate Students

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The Division of Graduate Studies, the Teaching Engagement Program (TEP), and the Center on Diversity & Community (CoDaC) are pleased to announce a training opportunity for graduate students: the Graduate Writing Program, a six-session professional development curriculum designed to provide…

Updates from the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards  

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UO has embarked on a multi-year to update its Student Conduct Code and process that are meant to make them more specific and timelier, support the academic mission, and better ensure consistency and fairness for students.   This page summarizes those changes, explains what they mean for…

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (TIP)

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This page offers definitions and context for what trauma-informed pedagogies and their principles are, and why considering the effects of trauma and pedagogies responsive to them might be useful. It also offers guidance on how to translate principles into teaching practice, navigate potentially…

Equity in Student Achievement: Resources & Research

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This page offers definitions of equity, resources that summarize promising practices and offer necessary context for both why inequities exist and how institutions are are addressing them, and peer-reviewed research focused on specific interventions. All listed resources and research expand to…

Cross-Campus Collaborations to Build a Culture of Academic Integrity

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This page describes two student-facing Canvas modules created to support a more unified understanding of what academic integrity is in action. These modules were developed in response to faculty concerns around academic integrity and a need for additional support and in response to student concerns…

Teaching with Authenticity

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What does it mean to teach with authenticity? Teaching with authenticity is a pedagogical approach that humanizes the online classroom room by including…

Universal Design for Learning

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This page provides an overview of what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is as a pedagogical framework, information on why instructors may want to use UDL in their teaching and course design, guidance around how to apply the guidelines of UDL, and resources to continue that work. This page…

Hybrid Teaching at the UO

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Since 2020, we have all been participating in a mass experiment in faculty development, likely the most extensive in scale and speed in the history of higher education. Academic continuity during the pandemic required our campus community to reconsider what it means to support the whole student,…

Graduate Writing Mentorship Program

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Though writing is fundamental to the careers of most scholars, too few programs teach graduate students how to write in their respective disciplines and even fewer teach faculty how to teach writing to their graduate students. Meanwhile, the university offers few writing services specifically for…

Active Learning & Metacognition

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Research indicates that students who engage actively with course content – by asking and answering questions, discussing issues and presenting ideas, applying and synthesizing their knowledge, etc. – perform better and retain their knowledge longer than those who passively listen to lectures or…