The University of Arizona has selected Meredith Hay, vice president for research at the University of Iowa, as its next provost, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Pending final approval by Arizona’s governing board, she’ll take office on April 30. She succeeds Eugene Sander, Arizona’s vice president for outreach and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who assumed the job of interim provost in July 2007 when George Davis left to return to teaching. Also see an article in The Des Moines Register for more details.
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6 Responses to U. of Arizona Names New Provost
Sara Q. Thompson - January 11, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I couldn’t get the UX Librarian link to work. Was this the article you were linking to?
http://crln.acrl.org/content/70/6/346.full.pdf+html
Brian Mathews - January 11, 2012 at 3:04 pm
That’s it, thanks– fixed the link.
Carrie - January 12, 2012 at 10:00 am
Very excited to see what your collaboration yields. I’m in the middle of reading Char’s book and am feeling very inspired. It has got me wondering about how to foster more critical thinking in the research process in my instruction sessions. I think we (well, maybe just me) are really missing an important opportunity by not spending enough time on the thought processes going into doing research and what they should be doing as they transition into the production/writing phase. If we can help teach students how to think better about the research process in relation to what they are going to do with what they find can we some how impress upon them the value in engaging in this kind of critical thinking? I don’t know. But has I ponder all this I will wait to see what comes out of your project. Good luck.
blendedlibrarian - January 12, 2012 at 11:49 am
I agree that it’s important to look at the whole student learning experience, and to determine how the librarian best fits into creating a better experience, but it seems that to accomplish it we’re going to have to get better (or get better results) at collaborating with our faculty. No matter how well librarians understand the learning experience, we will be challenged to improve it (assuming the experience needs improving -which we are convinced it does when it comes to student research) without faculty involvement. The goal is to improve learning (a permanent change in behavior), but how will we know when we’ve done that? Will look forward to hearing more about these ideas. Not the same as Blended Librarianship – but the goals are the same – enhancing your individual skill sets and organizational capacity to more effectively collaborate with faculty to enhance student learning.
paulb - January 12, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Brian,
Great article! I’m currently reading an excellent book titled, Learner-Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice by Terry Doyle. The forward in the book was written by Dr. Todd Zakrajsek (who came to the University of Alabama recently to put on a workshop where I learned of this book and this style of teaching). I highly recommend the book AND “Dr. Z” (http://www.theideacenter.org/category/helpful-resources/consulting-consultant/todd-zakrajsek) as he is called.
Paul Brothers
Business Reference Librarian
University of Alabama
pbrothers@bama.ua.edu
Robben Wainer - February 15, 2012 at 7:21 am
Hello,
I have been under the impression that knowing how to get started on assignments to complete them on time still must be a difficult task for many student’s. Many student’s may feel that they have to analyze a large volume of subject fields before knowing what to focus on, and what they are expected to learn.