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University Committee on the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) mission: UCAT promotes student learning across the campus by focusing on teaching excellence and pedagogical improvement and innovation. UCAT aligns its resources with opportunities for faculty that have the potential to impact students from multiple disciplines.

UCAT is comprised of an eight-member committee appointed by the Faculty Senate whose members serve three-year staggered terms.

2024-25 UCAT Initiative

Faculty Observation of Teaching - Options for In-Person, Online or Hybrid Courses

Registration for the 2024-25 is Now Open!

Goals:

  1. Promote collegial, non-evaluative observations of teaching
  2. Encourage conversations about teaching and the exchange of effective engagement practices that promote student success

Full-time faculty can earn $300 by engaging in structured teaching observations/reviews. Participants will identify a full-time faculty partner outside of their department/school. Each faculty member will observe one of their partner’s in-person or synchronous classes or review an asynchronous online course.

*If faculty want to be assigned a partner rather than identifying a partner, the registration will provide an opportunity for such a request.

Structured teaching observations/reviews require faculty members to:

  1. Meet with their partner before the observations
  2. Observe each other's class OR review an online instructor input form
  3. Meet with their partner following the observations/review
  4. Complete a short report that documents and describes the above (a-c) and includes a brief reflection (estimated completion time is under 10 minutes).

Meet your UCAT Representatives!

College of Arts and Sciences

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Jennifer Harbour

Associate Professor, Black Studies
UCAT member since 2022

jharbour@unomaha.edu

Headshot of Edmund TiskoEdmund Tisko

Associate Professor, Chemistry
UCAT member since 2022

etisko@unomaha.edu

College of Business Adminstration

Headshot of Megan HarrisMeg Harris

School of Accounting, Lecturer
UCAT member since 2024

megharris@unomaha.edu

College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media

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Joshua Kearney

Associate Professor, Music
UCAT member since 2022

jskearney@unomaha.edu

Criss Library

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Amy Schindler

Director of Archives and Special Collections
Archives & Special Collections, Associate Professor

UCAT member since 2024

acschindler@unomaha.edu

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences

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Michael Fryda

Teacher Education, Instructor
UCAT member since 2024 - current co-chair

mfryda@unomaha.edu

College of Information Science & Technology

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Dario Ghersi

Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Informatics
UCAT member since fall 2023

dghersi@unomaha.edu

College of Public Affairs and Community Service

Headshot of Yiwei ZhangYiwei Zhang

Assistant Professor, Social Work
UCAT member since fall 2023 - current co-chair

yiweizhang@unomaha.edu

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