PTF Impacts
Provost's Teaching Fellows have made lasting impacts in their departments, colleges and schools, all of the University of Texas, and even the broader scholarship of teaching and learning. Through both individual initiatives and university-wide programs, PTFs continue to serve as catalysts for positive change and further our campus culture of teaching and learning.
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Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for Inclusive Mentoring (ASTE)
PTF Shelly Rodriguez co-presented a round table session at the Association of Science Teacher Education International Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 2024. The conference welcomes over 500 Association members and students each year, and includes dozens of papers, poster sessions, round tables, plenary sessions, and interactive workshops.
ClioVis: Visualizing Connections (Review, Journal of American History)
Dr. Jason Heppler of George Mason University reviewed ClioVis, the digital timeline visualization tool developed by Erika Bsumek, in the March 2024 issue of the Journal of American History. According to an excerpt from the review:
Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic (TAPA)
PTF alum Deborah Beck authored this invited paper as part of a group of six articles on "rupture and repair" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was published in Transactions of the American Philological Association, the journal of the professional organization for American Classicists. In the article, she explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic's social isolation and "New Normal" on faculty peer mentorship and how the landscape of academic mentorship has changed since the onset of the pandemic.
Designing a Longitudinal Practice Lab Sequence Bridging Education and Practice (AACP)
Dr. Acosta, Dr. Castleberry, and Dr. Davis presented a poster at the July 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy in Grapevine, Texas. Their poster described the Pharmacy Practice Lab (PPL) sequence spanning all six semesters of the UTCOP didactic program to consolidate lab components and increase skills development while aligning with and reinforcing curriculum balance.
Editor's Choice Award: ClioVis Description, Origin, and Uses (Digital Humanities Now)
"ClioVis: Description, Origin, and Uses," a September 2020 article from Not Even Past: the digital magazine of the UT Department of History, was awarded Editor's Choice by the online aggregate Digital Humanities Now.
Thinking Critically with ClioVis (Pedagogy Playground)
Dr. Lindsey Passenger Wieck, faculty at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, reviewed ClioVis for the pedagogy blog Pedagogy Playground: Innovative Teaching in Higher Education in February 2020. The review discusses her experiences with ClioVis during and after a workshop led by Bsumek, and goes on to highlight the features of the tool which she finds most compelling: interactivity, collaboration, ease of use, exportability, and applications outside of coursework.
UT Provost's Teaching Fellows Initiative (Reinvention Collaborative, UERU)
PTF Leaders Cynthia LaBrake and Mary Neuburger presented both a poster and a talk at the 2018 Reinvention Collaborative meeting (now the Association of Undergraduate Education at Research Universities, UERU) on November 8-10, 2018 in Arlington, Virginia. The 2018 Biennial National Conference featured more Undergraduate Vice Presidents/Provosts and more participants overall than any previous Reinvention Collaborative meeting.
UT Provost's Teaching Fellows Initiative (Changing Education: Redesigning the Undergraduate Experience)
The 2017 Provost's Teaching Fellows Steering Committee prepared this poster as part of the Symposium Changing Education: Redesigning the Undergraduate Experience, hosted by Project 2021 and the Faculty Innovation Center at UT Austin on March 30, 2017. The format included keynote presentations punctuated by short talks and plenty of time for discussions in breakout sessions.
UT Provost’s Teaching Fellows Initiative (De Lange Conference, Rice University)
More than a dozen of the country’s leading education experts met at Rice University October 13-14, 2014 for the biennial De Lange Conference, “Teaching in the University of Tomorrow.” This conference was presented in collaboration with Scientia, an institute for the history of science and culture, and the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University.