SBS Recognizes CUES 2024 Distinguished Fellows and Spanning Challenge Grantees

Sept. 9, 2024
Anna Lineberry
Photo montage of five women who are awardees

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences provides numerous opportunities to enhance educational innovations in both teaching and learning. In partnership with the Center for University Education Scholarship, or CUES, at the University of Arizona, SBS supports faculty initiatives that contribute to educational scholarship and address pioneering solutions for challenges in higher education. 

CUES serves as a model for change and improvement in university education, by fostering exceptional scholarly experiences for faculty and staff — primarily through financial grants that fund fellowships, project-based challenges, and workshops.

The 2024 CUES Distinguished Fellows and Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantees recognize SBS faculty from the Department of English and School of Anthropology for their work in integrating place-based learning in Southwest Studies curricula, developing linguistically responsive teaching assistant training models, and fostering teaching teams to support student belonging and self-efficacy. 

 

Jennifer Jenkins, Department of English
2024 CUES Distinguished Fellow
Querencia: Integrating place-based learning in Southwest Studies curricula

“Through this project, faculty will integrate pedagogical practices anchored in Native Ways of Knowing, working in respectful, reciprocal, relational, and responsible contexts with the places and communities we explore. This project engages with U of A’s core values of adaptation and exploration, sparks curiosity and nurtures compassion and inclusion practices.”

— Jennifer Jenkins 

 

Shelley Staples, Department of English
2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee
A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model

Christine Tardy, Department of English
2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee
A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model

Shelley Rodrigo, Department of English
2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee
A linguistically responsive Teaching Assistant (TA) training model

Elizabeth Eadie, School of Anthropology
2024 CUES Spanning Boundaries Challenge Grantee
Teaching teams as communities supporting student belongingness and self-efficacy

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