October is Mental Health Awareness Month at Pitt, and faculty are encouraged to think about how engaging with your students can support their well-being. To assist you with having conversations with students, please visit Thrive@Pitt and the University Counseling Center…
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is imbedded in University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher's Plan for Pitt as a vehicle to help create a welcoming environment. To promote a University community that is rich, vibrant, and embraces differences, the University…
The Teaching Center, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, will present a series of virtual workshops on Student Success throughout the fall term. The first is scheduled for Aug. 18, and is now open for registration. This workshop will…
As part of the University’s planned retirement of Box and migration of data to OneDrive, the Box integration will be removed from Canvas on Aug. 19. While Box will still be available for current users during this migration process, new users…
Lenore Thomas, associate professor and chair of the Department of Studio Arts, woke up with a clear vision: to create an interactive gallery for the 2021 Student Exhibition where visitors could learn about and experience the success of the department’s…
The Teaching Center has developed resources to support recommendations made by the Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) to improve and expand assessment of teaching. In addition to the existing library of resources on assessment of teaching and student…
Michael Arenth, director of Educational Technologies for the Teaching Center, received the 2019 University of Pittsburgh Staff Council Mentor Award. The award recognizes staff members who place immense value on the act of mentorship and exhibit a passion for fostering…
We’d like to congratulate Andrew P.K. Bentley (instructional designer), Lex Drozd (instructional designer), Max Glider (learning space services coordinator), Joy Hart (senior program coordinator), Cressida Magaro (assistant manager of Educational Software Consulting) and Team Testing (Sue Richardson, manager, and testing…
As we all continue to strive to create the very best environments for our students to live and learn, we want to encourage you to think about how your engagement with students can support their well-being during this uniquely stressful…