The Office of Disability Services (ODS) has a number of new resources for faculty, including guidance on accommodations and syllabi, faculty forms, tips for conflict resolution, and captioning resources. Find the full collection of resources under Faculty on the ODS website, or visit ods.ua.edu/faculty. Questions? For questions or more information, contact Brittany Gregg at brittany.gregg@ua.edu. […]
ODS Online Portal Now Available
The Office of Disability Services is pleased to announce the ODS Online Portal, a one-stop-shop for students and faculty to manage accommodations. Launched in Fall 2019, the ODS Online Portal offers the functionality to improve accommodation-related communications and services. Students who need to register with ODS will use the portal to submit their application for accommodations and […]
Revised Academic Misconduct Policy
The University of Alabama has a revised Academic Misconduct Policy. Under section C.1.a.(2), the policy includes an important change related to self-plagiarism, prohibiting students from “resubmitting your own previously submitted work without proper citation and permission from the current instructor to whom the original work is subsequently submitted.” See the full Academic Misconduct Policy (pdf) […]
BamaPulse: A New Service-Learning Platform
The University of Alabama has adopted a new, state-of-the-art volunteer management platform, GivePulse. This platform will be known to UA and its affiliates as BamaPulse, and it will replace SL Pro, the previous service-learning platform. BamaPulse is an intuitive and user-friendly online platform used to manage service-learning courses and outcomes while providing a route to […]
PDF Accessibility Training Opportunities
The Technology Accessibility team has added several opportunities to learn about PDF accessibility in April and May. Enhance your ability to create accessible PDFs by participating in these workshops and webinars: Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (webinar) This session covers how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create PDFs that are […]
CFP: A&S Summer Teaching Grants
The College of Arts and Sciences is currently accepting proposals for Teaching Grants. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to tenured, tenure-track, and NTRC faculty for projects beginning Summer 2019. Grants are limited to $2,000, and the College typically awards three. Diversity Initiative The College is committed to fostering an inclusive community and […]
Join the Teaching Hub Advisory Board!
The College of Arts and Sciences hosts The Teaching Hub to provide resources, ideas and best practices on a wealth of topics related to teaching. While Nathan Loewen and Jessica Porter keep the site updated, they are assisted by an Advisory Board composed of two faculty members from each A&S division serving for a three-year term. […]
CFP: UA System Scholars Institute
The University of Alabama System invites you to submit a proposal to present at the 2019 UA System Scholars Institute, May 13 – 14, 2019 at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. We seek individual and group proposals for lecture, panel, hands-on, poster, and roundtable sessions related to the institute’s theme, The Future is Now: […]
CFP: Project Rising Tide Course Innovation Program
In support of retention and student success, the Office for Academic Affairs seeks proposals from UA faculty for funding to assist them in the redesign of large enrollment courses. A goal of the Rising Tide course innovations grants program is to support faculty seeking to redesign large enrollment classes to increase the academic success of […]
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CFP: A&S Prison Teaching Fellowship
The College is pleased to announce its continued cooperation with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (APAEP), based at Auburn University. During each full semester (fall and spring), the College will name one faculty member as an A&S Prison Teaching Fellow. The recipient of this fellowship will have a one-course reduction on the main […]