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Mon, 02/01/2021
LAWRENCE Nine University of Kansas faculty members were recently recognized for their innovative work in improving student learning.
They shared their work Jan. 26 at the 2021 Student Learning Symposium, hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence. The symposium focuses on effective approaches to assessing student understanding and skill development as a means of improving courses and curricula. Nearly 100 KU faculty and staff members joined this year’s virtual sessions.
Joshua Potter, CTE’s documenting learning specialist, praised the extensive work instructors put into their teaching over the past year.
“COVID forced many faculty members into online or remote environments for the first time in their careers,” Potter said. “Many of them went to great lengths to redesign and create new assessment methods and instruments. This year’s honorees provide great examples that other faculty and departments can draw on in the years ahead.”
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. (Credit: Courtesy illustration)
“The Shelter Island community continues to see a surge in Covid-19 positive cases over the past two months,” Police Chief Jim Read said Tuesday.
He noted that East End hospitals are seeing many more cases, but didn’t release updated numbers.
“This increase in positive cases is significantly higher than what they were in the preceding eight months combined,” Chief Read said.
Suffolk County tracked 23 COVID cases on the Island as of Tuesday morning, but there may be more since reporting varies between local and county numbers. The county health department, Chief Read has said, uses the home address given by those who test positive, which can be an Island address, or someone who is living here but has a home address somewhere else.