Join us for Lunch & Learn/Coffee & Conversations events! Please register at the link below for our first events on Wednesday, October 16, 12:10-1:30pm OR Thursday, October 17, 9:10-10:30am. Workshop 2 is titled “Principles of creating good writing assignments and strategies for writing clear instructions for those assignments” and will be offered at two times to allow participants to […]
Faculty at two WSU campuses are deliberately and uniquely going beyond the norm to prepare students to be career ready. Fifty-one WSU Pullman and WSU Vancouver general education professors from 23 disciplines—fellows who have completed the Core to Career Program—embed career-oriented skill-building into their assignments. Over the past three years at Pullman alone, nearly 9,000 […]
Thank you to all who attended the September Lunch & Learn and Coffee & Conversations events! A copy of the slide deck (PPTX) is now available. Thank you! The UCORE Team and the Writing Program
Join us for Lunch & Learn/Coffee & Conversations events! Please RSVP at the link below for our first events on Wednesday, September 11, 12:10-1:30pm OR Thursday, September 12, 9:10-10:30am. Workshop 1 is titled “Articulating Goals, Outcomes, and Evaluation Criteria” and will be offered at two times to allow participants to attend when is most convenient for them. RSVP Here: […]
Dear Colleagues: This year, UCORE will offer a series of workshops around assignment design, writing, and assessment related to UCORE Learning Outcomes across designations. Partnered with the WSU Writing Program, we will host 3 workshops, offering each one two times to allow participants to attend when is most convenient for them. Please save the dates […]
WSU announces that applications for the next Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching will be accepted through Tues., March 19, 2024. “The Law award is a WSU tradition, and it recognizes UCORE educators for their unique and exceptional efforts to deliver top academic experiences for WSU students,” said Ashley Boyd, UCORE director. Thirteen faculty members have so far received the Law award, said Karen Weathermon, member of the award selection committee. The award is named in honor of WSU administrator and faculty member Richard “Dick” Law, who served as the director of general education from 1990 until his retirement in 2009.
The University Common Requirements (UCORE) Committee will launch its Lunch & Learn series in spring 2024 with a focus on information literacy throughout the UCORE Curriculum. Workshops will kick off with a focus on the BSCI/PSCI/SSCI/QUAN designations on January 24th, 2024, in CUE 518 on the Pullman campus and via Zoom. We will begin […]