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A newsletter devoted to the support of teaching and learning at the University of Pittsburgh |
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ACIE Award Winners Describe Their Projects
Eleven projects funded in this year’s Innovation in Education awards competition, a program sponsored by the Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence, are described in this annual issue of the Teaching Times. The projects from across the University’s Pittsburgh and regional campuses received funding of approximately $176,000. The awards program was established in 1999–2000 to support leading-edge approaches to teaching. “The funded projects continue to represent a variety of innovative teaching methodologies,” said Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Andrew Blair, who chairs the Council. Proposals are annually invited from all of the University’s academic units for projects that
Directors of projects funded in the previous year will make presentations to the University community at the annual Teaching Excellence Fair scheduled for November 7 in Alumni Hall. In addition to highlighting those awards, the fair provides a forum for other presentations on teaching and the use of various instructional technologies. (See the announcement on the back page.) The awards program is among a number of programs that the Advisory Council undertakes in its efforts to promote teaching of the highest possible quality at the University of Pittsburgh. The 2006–07 Council was comprised of faculty from across the University’s fields and disciplines, and its membership consisted of the following: Advisory Council In Instructional Excellence Members
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