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CEILS Monthly Newsletter
Issue #106 | June 2024
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Upcoming CEILS Programming | | |
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Save the Date! CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute - Foundations of Equitable Course Design & Inclusive Teaching
July 17 - 24th, 2024
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The CEILS Scientific Teaching Institute is designed to introduce you to evidence-based strategies for inclusive teaching and course design. The experience is facilitated by CEILS staff and other UCLA faculty; and you will receive feedback on your daily assignments, culminating at the end of the week with a syllabus draft, assessment plan, sample lesson plan, and embedded feedback strategy. Tips, strategies, and resources for equity, accessibility, and remote/online design will be integrated into the workshops and course site resources.
This year CEILS has the funds to compensate UCLA instructors (senate and non-senate faculty including adjunct, lecturers, and academic administrators) for your time in the amount of $1,000 in unrestricted research funds upon completion the institute and the daily deliverables. You will also receive a certificate of completion for participation in this Institute.
Record your participation in your dossier as evidence of your efforts to improve teaching and as an activity that helps promote equal opportunity and diversity in education. Such efforts in both categories, on behalf of all faculty, are now a recognized component of the promotion and tenure process at UCLA (see APM 210-1, and Appendix 41)
See more details on our website: https://ceils.ucla.edu/learning-communities-trainings/summer-institute/
Space is limited, so apply by clicking the button below!
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In this 5 min video, Dr. Rachel Kennison & Dr. Shanna Shaked explore a few tips for instructors to save time when grading assessments, while still maintaining critical examination of the course content.
Use this link to follow along on the Alternative Assessments document: https://tinyurl.com/ucla-assessments.
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By: Amy Liu, Casey Shapiro, Jess Gregg, Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Erin Sanders O'Leary & Rachel L. Kennison
The role of career interventions and their impact on students’ sense of self and preparation for careers in STEM fields is an underexplored teaching and research area within STEM education.
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Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Undergraduate STEM Education: Participatory Science as a Teaching Tool
By: Heather D. Vance-Chalcraft, Kalynda Chivon Smith, Jessica Allen, Gillian Bowser, Caren B. Cooper, Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, Colleen Karl, Robin Kodner, and Mara Laslo
Social justice is increasingly being seen as relevant to the science curriculum. We examine the intersection of participatory science, social justice, and higher education in the United States to investigate how instructors can teach about social justice and enhance collaborations to work toward enacting social justice.
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AI as My Copilot – Improved ALT-text
By: Thomas Garbelotti
Creating accessible web-based content is important for everyone , whether we’re creating public-facing web pages or uploading instructional content. A fundamental aspect of web accessibility involves providing ALT-text for images or graphics. This ensures that screen readers can effectively describe them, aiding users with limited visibility. Moreover, it enhances search engine optimization (SEO), helping search engines in indexing and understanding the content and improving the user experience for those with slow internet connections or facing other technical challenges.
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Participate in a Research Student on Campus Climate! Receive a $40 Gift Card to Participate in a Research Study!
The Healthy Climate Committee is conducting Faculty focus group interviews as part of a research study about the campus climate, including topics such as belonging. The researchers would like to find out about your experience within the campus community and working and/or studying at UCLA.
Participation in the focus group is voluntary. There will be other UCLA community members participating in the small group discussion (about 8 total). Focus groups will be held separately for each of the following groups: undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty.
The focus group will take approximately 1.5 hours, and there are both in-person and virtual opportunities to participate. You will receive a $40 gift card for your participation, and a meal will be provided for in-person focus groups.
To be eligible for participation in this study, you must meet all of the following criteria:
- Be a current UCLA faculty member
- Have worked or studied at UCLA for at least 1 year
- Are at least 18 years of age or older
- Are comfortable having a conversation in English
If you meet these criteria and are interested in being contacted for more information, please complete the following form so we may determine your eligibility to participate: https://forms.gle/WVs2BSKnmKRthcxw7
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Featured Campus Resources | | |
Be Well Bruin
Share with students, add to your syllabus, add to your email signature! This website is a student-facing resource with an intuitive user design that allows students to easily find resources to support their physical, academic, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing. It also includes information on access to basic needs such as food, housing, childcare and transportation. This website is the result of a cross-campus initiative from multiple wellness organizations at UCLA.
Visit their website: https://bewellbruin.ucla.edu/
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Disabilities & Computing Program
The mission of UCLA’s Disabilities and Computing Program at the Office of Advanced Research Computing is two-fold. The first goal is to facilitate the integration of adaptive computing technology into the areas of instruction, study, research, and employment at UCLA. The second goal is to make information – including electronic text and multimedia – accessible to all students, faculty and staff.
Click here to view their latest newsletter
Visit their website: https://dcp.ucla.edu/
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Additional UCLA Training Events
Visit the following websites to view additional training events that support teaching and learning at UCLA:
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Bruin Learn Workshops
Join the BruinLearn Center of Excellence and register for the upcoming training events:
- End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn & MyUCLA
- Quick Start: Preparing to Teach with Bruin Learn
- 5 Ways to Explore Taking Class Attendance
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For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at www.ceils.ucla.edu or stop by our CEILS office in 222 Hershey Hall. If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to media@ceils.ucla.edu.
Please note, this monthly newsletter is circulated through many departmental listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are sent to CEILS mailing list recipients only. If you have questions or have difficulty reading this newsletter, please email us at media@ceils.ucla.edu.
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