Fifteen University of Minnesota Crookston faculty and staff members joined a Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) cohort during the fall of 2024 as part of a year-long program designed to encourage the investigation of student learning experiences, to collect data on learning outcomes, and publish results. The cohort meets monthly under the leadership of Jeff Lindgren, Ph.D., associate director of the Center for Educational Innovation for the University of Minnesota.
In Summer 2021, he was taking three intensive classes while studying computer information systems at Colorado State University Pueblo. He was working 40 hours a week with two jobs, at a golf course and in an office on campus. The oldest of six siblings, Vido needed the jobs to help his family pay bills and buy groceries.
A collegiate distance runner, artist, and social media influencer, Amalia Dorion inspires entire communities. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in painting from Adams State University in the spring of 2024. A graduate of an El Paso, Texas high school and with family ties to eastern universities, her family assumed she would follow in their paths and attend college along the east coast. Imagine their surprise when Amalia Dorion announced her decision to attend a rural, state-supported institution in southern Colorado.
As Native American Heritage Month draws to a close and as many of us prepare to gather with family and friends, there are also opportunities to experience the Indigenous perspectives threaded throughout PST ART: Art & Science Collide, both at UCLA and through alumni representation across the regional art event.
Wesley Meares, PhD, and Lance Hunter, PhD, are avid sports fans and were intrigued by the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2021 ruling in NCAA v Alston that allowed student-athletes to profit from their Name, Image and Likeness. Before the ruling, student-athletes were prohibited by the NCAA from entering into contracts to promote products or brands.
Awed as a young child by the majesty of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, civil engineer and MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Fellow Zane Schemmer has retained his fascination with bridges: what they look like, why they work, and how they're designed and built. He weighed the choice between architecture and engineering when heading off to college, but, motivated by the why and how of structural engineering, selected the latter. Now he incorporates design as an iterative process in the writing of algorithms that perfectly balance the forces involved in discrete portions of a structure
UT received high marks in three categories: Best Online Graduate Business Programs (non-MBA), Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs and Best Online Bachelor’s Programs. These rankings attest to the success of our efforts to reach learners wherever they are. We remain committed to expanding access to higher education,” said Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor John Zomchick, “to breaking down barriers to learning and acquiring educational credentials by creating flexible high-quality opportunities for learners everywhere to achieve their academic and professional goals.
University of Kentucky College of Social Work Ph.D. student, Levone Lee, published his first lead-author article, titled -Attitudes Toward Aggressive and Violent Behaviors and the Role of Life Skills Among University Club Sport Athletes.- This article examines the relationship between life skills developed in sport context and attitudes toward aggressive and violent behaviors outside of sports.