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Unlv Top Tier Focus - Research, Scholarship, And Creative Activity, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Research, Scholarship, And Creative Activity, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Focus on Top Tier 2.0
Our Top Tier journey is to achieve excellence in research, education, and community impact. Top Tier Focus is designed to provide regular updates on progress toward our Top Tier goals.
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Student Achievement, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Student Achievement, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Focus on Top Tier 2.0
Our Student Achievement goal is focused on student success. While retention and graduation rates are key indicators, we recognize the importance of academic and co-curricular learning experiences. We educate students and offer experiences that prepare them for success in their personal, civic, and professional lives.
Status Of Women In Nevada: Higher Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson
Status Of Women In Nevada: Higher Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson
Research Briefs
Students may leave school due to a different educational environment, work and school adjustments without support from family and friends, a lack of financial planning and academic struggles.
Status Of Women In Nevada: K-12 Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Brenda Cruz Gomez, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson
Status Of Women In Nevada: K-12 Education Snapshot, Aika Dietz, Ana Rosas, Brenda Cruz Gomez, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Jean Munson
Research Briefs
There has been a sudden increase in Nevada K-12 student population since 2003 ballooning student-teaching ratio and straining the educational system.
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Academic Health Center, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Academic Health Center, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Focus on Top Tier 2.0
In the midst of supporting the campus community, Southern Nevada, and the state during the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain focused on our Top Tier strategic plan.
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Our Path Forward In A Time Of Crisis, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Our Path Forward In A Time Of Crisis, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Focus on Top Tier 2.0
Top Tier remains our strategic plan, continuing to provide direction for the advancement of the university. Although UNLV currently faces budget reductions that will limit resources available for programs, initiatives, and operations, we must continue to focus on the broader goals of our Top Tier plan. Under these circumstances, we must come together, stronger than ever before, to sustain our forward momentum.
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Community Partnerships, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Unlv Top Tier Focus - Community Partnerships, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Focus on Top Tier 2.0
Community Partnerships stimulate economic development and diversification, foster innovation, and enrich our communities. UNLV has recently joined the ranks of a distinct group of universities recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for outstanding community engagement. This milestone is another important achievement in our Top Tier journey.
Best Teaching Practices Expo 2020, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Best Teaching Practices Expo 2020, Melissa Bowles-Terry
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
UNLV Instructors will share mini-workshops on topics including in-class polling, leading discussions on difficult topics, and more. Join us for refreshments, check out the new Faculty Center space and learn from colleagues.
Motivating Autonomous Knowledge Exploration, Yvonne Houy
Motivating Autonomous Knowledge Exploration, Yvonne Houy
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Flow Learning Design: Autonomous Knowledge Exploration The feeling of “Flow” — forgetting time — while exploring online media is common: As online instructor & instructional designer I want to encourage Flow in my students as they interact with my online learning materials. Inspired by research on student motivation and autonomous learners, I developed learning activities allowing students to choose learning paths with increasing freedom, while emphasizing core disciplinary skills and student learning outcomes. In an online social history course, I emphasized high interest topics such as the devastating effects of the Black Plague, and how sugar, coffee, and syphilis changed …
Building Early Confidence In A Practice-Based Discipline, Lisa Nicholas, Angela Silverstri-Elmore, Tricia K. Gatlin
Building Early Confidence In A Practice-Based Discipline, Lisa Nicholas, Angela Silverstri-Elmore, Tricia K. Gatlin
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Front-loading coursework is an area that has little exploration and yet has many possibilities that may benefit beginning or entry-level students in academic practice-based programs. For the purposes of this proposal, front-loading is an educational approach to allow for a course to be reconstructed to focus first on skill attainment prior to entering the clinical setting. The premise of front-loading skills is to allow learners to engage in experiential learning, or learning by doing, which creates a frame of reference and context that can be drawn upon once the student moves to the clinical setting. Creating a frame of reference …