Quality of Education is one of the five pillars in AUC’s new strategic plan. What follows is a summary of the main findings of the Provost’s …
2018
Can Accreditation Stimulate Change?
In summer 2018 , AUC’s Bachelor of Science Program in Actuarial Science received ABET accreditation for the duration of six years until 2024. ABET (http://www.abet.org/) …
How to Escape Grading Jail
This article was first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education and is republished with permission of the author and The Chronicle. For the first …
10 Steps to More Humane Final Exams
This post is republished from the author’s blog, with permission. Original text is available at http://etale.org/main/2017/12/09/10-steps-to-more-humane-final-exams/ As this is the time of year when teachers …
Three Days of Celebrating Learning and Teaching at AUC
The Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) at AUC, in collaboration with the AMICAL consortium, organized a three day event in February featuring CLT’s annual …
Mapping it Out: Quantitative Reasoning within a Project-Based Learning Context
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) combines critical thinking with mathematical competence to examine vast amounts of data within a real-world context (Elrod, 2014). Numerous clarion calls to …