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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Teaching as Well Being (UT System)
3 different PTF projects presented:
Loescher project focuses on: Elevate excellence in the classroom through new strategies to understand, measure, and improve rigor in all courses
•each class is designed and delivered with the expectation of students learning at high levels •each student demonstrates learning at high levels
•each student is supported so they can learn at high levels
View the poster here
American Society of Engineering Education
The entries are conference articles of the American Society of Engineering Education annual conference.
For information on the implementation of a new student initiative aimed at promoting student success and well-being, check out this resource from ASEE: Implementation of a New Student Initiative Promoting Student Success and Well-being
Musings in Greek Literature podcast
"Musings in Greek Literature" is a podcast co-produced by Prof. Deborah Beck and advanced UT undergraduate students of ancient Greek.
CSE Grant
Dr. Berkin Dortdivanlioglu and I (Krishna Kumar) received a grant from the Cockrell School of Engineering to use AI for persoanlized tutors in our introduction to programming course. We have since built a personalized tutor for this course and is available for student privately. We are in the process of making the tutor public through TACC
Be Well to Do Well (Signature Course Resource)
This is a video project designed to be shown in all Signature Courses at UT. Together with discussion prompt, the video aims to acquaint students with mental and physical health resources on campus, and to teach them strategies for success.
American Society for Legal History & Renaissance Society of America
ASLH 2024 Conference info: https://theaste.org/meetings/2024-international-conference/
Session info:
Islamic Law of Property in Colonial Contexts: The Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Crimea
Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Samy Ayoub, University of Texas at Austin. Lost Property: Ownership, Trust, and Community
City of Austin Data Meetup (online)
At the end of each semester, about 10 students volunteer to present their findings to the City of Austin employees during one of their regular data meetups.
Open Data Day (Austin Public Library) and Statistics Seminar (Texas State University)
Two presentations about promoting the use of a local open data portal for data science projects.
The first presentation was made with the collaboration of a former student/current UGCA at an event organized by Open Austin, which addresses local social and civic challenges through creative uses of technology.
The second presentation was made at the weekly statistics seminar at Texas State University with mostly professors in attendance.
Teaching Tips 2022-2023
Each year, the PTF Chair-Elect has the opportunity to share recurring Teaching Tips with all faculty at UT. These messages cover a variety of topics, styles, and methodologies, from brief and practical classroom strategies to in-depth conversations with voices from across campus.
This year’s Teaching Tips were written by Chair-Elect Nina Telang.
Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic (TAPA)
This invited paper is part of a group of six articles on "rupture and repair" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic published in Transactions of the American Philological Association, the journal of the professional organization for American Classicists.
A Classics Podcast Gets Greek Greats Onto Your Phone (Life & Letters Magazine)
This profile of "Musings in Greek Literature" appeared in the Spring 2023 edition of Life and Letters, the magazine of the UT College of Liberal Arts. This article explores the podcast and its origins, which occurred spontaneously in a conversation with Adam Rabinowitz about experiential learning. At the time, Adam was a PTF, but I wasn't. I re-applied multiple times to the PTF program and was ultimately selected for this podcast project in large part because of Adam's support and encouragement.
Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project (International Communication Association)
Chen, W. et al., (2023). Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project. Paper presented at Media Sociology Postconference, International Communication Association, Toronto.
The Odyssey (1997), with Deborah Beck (Movies We Dig Podcast)
I made a guest appearance on the Classics media podcast "Movies We Dig" in part because the hosts knew of my work with "Musings in Greek Literature." On this podcast, hosted by several young Classicists including two graduates of the UT Classics Ph.D. program, I discussed the made-for-TV version of Homer's Odyssey starring Armand Assante and Isabelle Rosselini (1997).