Q: What is your favorite teaching technology that you are using right now?
A: Adobe Creative Cloud Express formerly Adobe Spark Video
Q: Can you share an example of how you are using this technology?
Elsie G. Moore Smith, age 72, of Tempe, Arizona passed away on Monday, February 21, 2022. Elsie was born November 16, 1949.
Dr. Moore-Smith was an accomplished professor receiving her BA from Elmhurst College, her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. She was affiliated with Arizona State University, November 1981 - February 2022.
“Envisioning General Studies For the Twenty-First Century”
Eduardo Obregón Pagán
The Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History
Without question, we are in a unique moment of our careers. Arizona State University has transitioned to different modes of teaching in order to respond to our primary mission to educate the students who come to us, and to work as safely as we can during this pandemic. There are many questions about our work conditions, or even whether our campuses should be open at all.
What should I do if a student tells me about a positive test result?
On April 27, 2020, the University Senate Student and Faculty Policy Committee introduced a resolution supporting removing voting barriers for students.
"The United States Constitution’s 26th Amendment says that citizens of the United States who are eighteen years of age or older have the right to vote..."
You can read the full resolution online.
In 2019 the Senate heard from Dr. Aaron Krasnow, Associate Vice President, from ASU Counseling and Health Services about student mental health and national trends. The statistics that he presented were alarming. Between 2010 and 2018 the US has seen a 37% increase in overwhelming anxiety and a 140% increase in students who are being treated for anxiety. Students report being stressed about finances and work-life balance, and often suffer from exhaustion. During that same time frame, cases of interfering depression rose 47% and students treated for depression rose 118%.
On March 23, 2020, the University Academic Council (UAC) introduced a resolution in appreciation of UTO for their unparalleled support to all faculty, staff, and students and their extraordinary responsiveness to the rapidly evolving situation our university, community, and country is currently experiencing.
