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UTSA College of Education and Human Development
COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, May 06, 2016 |
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Spotlight:
Saldivar-Hull
receives 2016 University Excellence Award
Dr. Sonia Saldivar-Hull, director of the Women's Studies Institute and professor of English, received the 2016 President’s Distinguished Diversity Award in the faculty/staff category. She was presented with the award during a special ceremony on Thursday,
April 14 at the UTSA Main Campus.
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Two
area teachers win Trinity Prize for excellence
by Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News | 05/05
Carol Marie Hudson’s job satisfaction comes from seemingly small moments in her kindergarten classroom. She feels pride when children who didn’t believe they could write start forming their letters, bolstered by their teacher’s
support.
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‘Nuestra
Historia’ Exhibit Tells the Stories of Early Bexar County
by Lea Thompson, The Rivard Report | 05/05
Nuestra Historia – Our History: Spain in Bexar County, a new exhibit developed by the Bexar Heritage and Parks Department and the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, focuses on 17th and 18th century Spanish exploration, and the
diverse exchange of cultures that led to present-day Bexar County.
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Colleges
Help the Faculty Adapt Teaching for Foreign Students
by Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education | 05/05
Jay Newell’s introductory advertising course is a large lecture class, but the Iowa State University professor prides himself on keeping students interested and engaged. And so he was puzzled a few years ago when he noticed a
knot of students who appeared checked out, unresponsive, bored. Why wasn’t he getting through to them? he wondered.
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Superintendents
Say STAAR Testing Doesn’t Measure Up
by Louisa Jonas, TPR | 05/05
Nearly 50 superintendents in the Houston area sent a letter to the Texas Commissioner of Education, Mike Morath, complaining about multiple problems with the State of Texas Assessments and Academic Readiness, or STAAR standardized
test. Districts in the San Antonio area have also complained.
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Study abroad program
renews travel opportunities to Mexico for UTSA students, faculty
by Jesus Chavez, UTSA Today | 05/05
The first cohort of UTSA students to travel to Mexico since 2010 recently returned from a weeklong education trip to Mexico City. Eight faculty-led study abroad programs will visit Mexico this year to study everything from political
science and global affairs to cross-cultural medicine to culture and civilization in Latin America. The expansion comes as a result of strengthened academic partnerships between UTSA and 26 Mexican institutions, centers and government entities.
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Research Awards & Submittals |
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Project Behave
UTSA VP for Research - GREAT
Submitted: $20,000 Educational Psychology
PI: Leslie Neely Educational Psychology
CI: Candace Gann Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
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