News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
Cinnamon Hillyard connects student success programs
IAS faculty member Cinnamon Hillyard, who had been serving as associate vice chancellor for undergraduate learning, took on an expanded role this summer as associate vice chancellor for student success. Hillyard’s position was created to center on the academic life cycle of students, align resources, and ensure a consistent vision of student success.
September 14, 2020
Kristin Gustafson organizes teaching-related panels on media and journalism
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-organized two teaching-related panels at The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020 conference. On the first panel, called “Transformative teaching of media and journalism history,” five scholars shared teaching modules that won this year’s AEJMC History Division’s teaching-idea contest. This was the contest’s second year. Gustafson and the division launched ...
September 8, 2020
Karam Dana: “Faculty keep creating impact while flattening the curve”
IAS faculty member Karam Dana wrote an article, "Faculty keep creating impact while flattening the curve," for UW Magazine, highlighting the monumental accomplishments of UW faculty in responding to the instructional challenges of COVID19.
June 18, 2020
Georgia M. Roberts wins Outstanding Faculty Champion award
IAS faculty member Georgia M. Roberts won the UW Bothell Student Affairs Outstanding Faculty Champion award for 2020. This award recognizes an individual faculty who has made exceptional contributions through collaboration within Student Affairs’ to enhance the quality of campus and student’s life at UW Bothell over the past academic year.
June 17, 2020
Cinnamon Hillyard appointed as associate vice chancellor for student success
UW Bothell has named IAS faculty member Cinnamon Hillyard, currently associate vice chancellor for undergraduate learning, to fill the new position of associate vice chancellor for student success (AVCSS), effective July 1. The AVCSS sustains a coherent vision for students’ curricular success, coordinates strategic and effective policies that support this vision, and implements best practices in partnership with the Deans, the Offices of Enrollment Management, Student Affairs, and Institutional Research, and other institutional leaders.
June 17, 2020
Deborah Hathaway receives UW Bothell Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award
IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway was honored with the 2020 UW Bothell Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award, which recognizes impactful community-engaged scholarship by a UW Bothell faculty member. Hathaway’s community-engaged scholarly work centers around creating community through performance. In her seven years in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and First Year Pre-Major Program, Hathaway has partnered with several organizations:
June 10, 2020
My Story: Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!
IAS faculty member Diana García-Snyder teaches performance, dance, and mindfulness at UW Bothell. Her work centers on dance and movement as healing and transformative practices, and COVID-19 has impacted her teaching in multiple ways.
June 3, 2020
Bridging distance through film
Students in IAS faculty member Minda Martin’s Resilient Visions course are partnering with students from Jinan University in Guangzhou Province of China and Shi Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan, to curate and produce the 2020 Resilient Visions film festival. Founded by IAS faculty in 2018, this year’s Resilient Visions received 360 photo, audio, VR/AR, and video submissions.
May 28, 2020
IAS recognizes two Outstanding Community Partners
In 2018 IAS established the Outstanding Community Partner award to honor the extraordinary contributions of partner organizations. Recipients advance the IAS values of equity, inclusion, and social justice and link student learning and faculty scholarship to real-life experiences that positively impact our region and world. In 2020 we are excited to recognize two phenomenal partners: Seattle Children’s Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center and Rent Mason Bees!
May 6, 2020
Advisors available, building relationships
The coronavirus pandemic has distanced academic advising, but UW Bothell advisers are still available, still a resource that students can access. “All of us have a lot on our plates. All of our schools are building things, creating new documents, developing new virtual tools to help facilitate online learning,” said Eva Navarijo, one of three advisers who normally would be found in the IAS office in Founders Hall (UW1).
May 1, 2020