The University’s Nevada Faculty Alliance and Faculty Senate will jointly present a faculty forum, “Faculty Health and Retirement Benefits: The Real Scoop,” on Thursday, Oct. 25 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 4001 of the William Raggio Education Building.
Speakers include Jacque Ewing Taylor of the College of Education and PEPB Board, Tim McFarling, director […]
By: Barbara Millis
“The idea for the Overteaching workshop initially came to me when I was mentoring an eager young Captain at the United States Air Force Academy,” confessed Bob Noyd during a recent interview. “Jim was the perfect new faculty member: enthusiastic, caring, supportive, and hard-working. However, he was very disappointed in his students’ […]
The Office of the Provost is seeking nominations for both the Nevada Regents’ Teaching Award and the Nevada Regents’ Academic Advisor Awards.
NEVADA REGENTS’ TEACHING AWARD
Nominations are due September 21, 2007, for the Nevada Regents’ Teaching Award, an annual recognition of outstanding faculty in the NSHE.
By: Jan Jones
What was being printed in America three centuries ago? You can find out by going to some newly acquired online resources of the University Libraries.
The Faculty Senate met on June 7 and considered various topics, including the Conflict of Interest Policy, Summer Scholars Program, nominees to Search Committee for Executive Vice President and Provost, Effort Reporting Draft Policy, and other matters, including an update on the legislative session’s impact on the University.
Although Jen Huntleysmith is a humanities person, having spent time as an instructor in the Core Humanities Program, fulltime visiting professor in the Department of History and coordinator of academics and outreach for the Academy for the Environment, she’s clearly emblematic of a new type of multi-disciplinary humanities faculty member who can stand with equal confidence in the world of science.
Tom Harrison has been appointed as chair of the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology for a three-year term.
Thirteen University faculty members were chosen by University Studies Abroad Consortium to teach in other countries during the 2008-09 academic year. These faculty members will have the opportunity to teach in places such as Chile, China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy and Spain as part of the USAC program.
The University posthumously awarded Cole Campbell an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the Advanced Degree Commencement Ceremony, May 18, on the historic University Quadrangle. Campbell was Reynolds School of Journalism.
By: Guy Hoelzer
The Faculty Senate reconvened for the last time this semester on Wednesday, May 9.
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