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After receiving a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, WTJU is developing a jazz curriculum with the help of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

The Center for Teaching Excellence will support WTJU in creating an online jazz history curriculum aimed at high school and early college students.

A PhD Plus intern at the Center for Teaching Excellence during the 2020-21 academic year, Christina Boltsi talks about her time in the position supporting professional development programs for graduate students.

This report features the CTE's c3Design program as an example of blended and hybrid course models in practice.

One of the week’s highlights will be when Randy Stoecker, a renowned sociology professor from the University of Wisconsin, gives a talk, “From the Margins to the Streets: Higher Ed Community Engagement for Justice,” that is being sponsored by UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, Equity Center, and Office for Academic Outreach.

Programs like UVA Acts bring to life higher education troubles and tensions through original sketches. These performances strive to educate, entertain—and transform.

Along with other faculty members, CTE Assistant Director for Community-Engaged Learning Initiatives Andrew Kaufman shares tips for teaching courses with elements of community engagement during the pandemic.

In his Virginia Politics and Policy course, Batten Professor Andy Pennock asks his students to choose policy problems facing the Commonwealth that they’d like to see solved. Then, the class works together to both determine relevant readings and invite guests to speak on the issues they’ve selected. Pennock designed the class through UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, using a model called "open inquiry."

The Jefferson Trust awarded the Office for Academic Outreach and Center for Teaching Excellence a $130,000 grant to create the infrastructure to support the expansion of community-engaged courses at UVA. Read more on how the funding will be used.

Rachel Most, associate dean for undergraduate academic programs in Arts & Sciences, and Erin Eaker, assistant professor and association dean, credited the Center for Teaching Excellence and the A&S Learning Design & Technology group for helping to develop a structure for their course "The Past, Present, and Future of Humankind."