Curriculum, Assessment & Teaching Transformation Blog

Embark on a transformative journey with Dr. Jeffrey Kohler as we tackle the mid-semester crescendo of higher education. Our enlightening discussion promises to arm you with the strategies you need to navigate midterm assessments while keeping your students engaged and on track.

If you have been entering your grades in HUB for a while, you are likely familiar with the classic options of either manually entering every grade for your students - a tedious process especially if you have a larger class, or uploading a spreadsheet with all the final grades for your students. HUB has recently been updated to allow for a new way to upload grades. This blog will guide you on how to export your final grades to import via the New Way in HUB.

The end of the semester doesn’t have to be exhausting. Taking time for yourself during fall recess to recharge. Reflection is crucial step to this process. I encourage you to challenge your students to do the same.

Effective exam proctoring is a critical component in the overall process of protecting exam integrity and accurate assessment of student learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, a recent court case involving Cleveland State University (CSU) has highlighted the fundamental contention between rigorous proctoring and student privacy.

Now that we've begun a new academic year, we thought that it would be fitting to look back on CATT's impact throughout the previous academic year. As we gain stride with our work this fall, we are standing on the shoulders of the great work done by each of CATT's respective teams.

UBIT recently released the results of their 2021 Student Experience Survey. Unsurprisingly, students across the University at Buffalo rely upon technology in most facets of their lives, from using GroupMe and Discord to communicate with classmates, the new Level Up studio to play and develop games, and even using smart lightbulbs in their homes.

UB recently lost a wonderful member of our longstanding community and, as two people whose lives were greatly impacted by J. Ronald Gentile (Ron), we wanted to take a moment to reflect on this extraordinary mentor.

An interview with Jeanne Myers and Steven Sturman. The FACT2 Excellence in Administrative Leadership Award is a system-level honor conferred to acknowledge and recognize consistently noteworthy achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

This past week, President Tripathi notified the university community that our self-study efforts toward re-accreditation are officially underway. As he indicated, the decennial accreditation process is indeed important for our institution as a whole. While UB comprises numerous unique academic units and programs—many of which have their own internal accreditation standards and obligations—this decennial accreditation process is our chance to come together as a broader institution.

As a University at Buffalo graduate student turned academic affairs professional, part of my role is reflecting on my student experience and the shared experiences of my peers as we make consistent efforts to move forward as an ever-changing and growing campus community. I often think back to the long hours spent in various lecture halls around north and south campus: collaborating with classmates, engaging in shared learning with my instructors and eventually leading my own courses in statistics and educational psychology.

We live in a time of unprecedented technological innovation and advancement. Our phones auto-update while we are sleeping, our cars get angry and start beeping at us when we are too close to something else, and our regular visits to the doctor’s office seem to yield some new protocol or procedure that they want us to sign up for.