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Where We Put Learning First
The UC Blue Ash Learning and Teaching Center offers faculty support, resources, and opportunities for supporting student learning. The Center works with faculty to promote scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. We recognize that the work of faculty is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. At UC Blue Ash, the Center collaborates with faculty committees, individual faculty, and the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, located in Langsam Library, to respond to the immediate needs of faculty as they respond to what students need.
The goal of the Center is to foster multi-disciplinary conversations about teaching and learning through collaboration. We believe that we teach and learn better when we open the classroom door to share what we do, when we consult each other and our colleagues through research to inform our practice, and when we involve students in this conversation.
Our Mission
The mission of the Learning and Teaching center is to provide faculty with the skills and resources to honor the college’s student-centered approach to teaching that helps faculty support students from a wide array of cultural backgrounds. The Learning and Teaching Center also supports faculty in realizing their scholarship and creative works through collaboration, training, and access to university resources.
Our Vision
The Learning and Teaching Center will be a recognized hub of innovation in pedagogy, scholarship, and creative work in service to student, faculty, and staff success.
Consultations Offered
The UC Blue Ash College Learning and Teaching Center offers the following services:
- The sponsorship of faculty learning communities
- The design and offering of workshops and summer seminars that address current concerns of teaching and learning
LTC Resources
Conferences
- Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges
- Association for Regional Colleges of Ohio
- SoTL Commons
- ISETL
- ISSOTL
- Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy
- Lilly Conference
UC Faculty Links
- Faculty Enrichment Center (FEC)
- Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learing (CETL)
- Faculty Development One Stop
Successful Experiences
Check out these real comments from faculty that have participated in our sessions.
All presentations were insightful and interesting. Excellent use of time; never a dull moment.
The presenter was well informed, enthusiastic, and responsive to questions. She used many helpful examples. Great job!
Take this seminar. You have the best facilitators at the University. You can use the content in both traditional and online courses. I know I sound like a cheerleader; but I really mean it.
Resources
- About the Center
Contact Information
Brenda Refaei
513-936-7164
[email protected]
María Ortiz
513-558-7909
[email protected]
Back to school: UC regional campuses mark half-century of service
August 18, 2022
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The University of Cincinnati’s regional campus UC Clermont celebrated its golden jubilee this year, now joining its slightly older sibling, UC Blue Ash, which turns 55.
Both campuses tout their innovation in the classroom, outreach to surrounding communities and the access they provide to thousands of residents in the region striving for higher education.
Back to school highlights:
- UC Blue Ash saw first-year enrollment jump by 28% while UC Clermont’s overall enrollment increased by 2%
- Blue Ash saw a 33% increase in Black students; 14% in Latinx students, 27% in first-generation students and 32% in graduates from Cincinnati Public Schools
- UC Clermont saw a 38% increase in Black students and a 25% increase in Latinx students
UC Clermont
“For 50 years, UC Clermont has launched thousands of lives by staying true to the college’s founding principle — put students first,” explains UC Clermont Dean Jeff Bauer. “This singular mission is at the heart of all we do. We are thrilled to celebrate the college’s success and all those individuals who have played a part in serving our students. At the same time, we are excited for our next chapter, too.
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UC Clermont is a leader in the development of HyFlex, or hybrid flexible, course format. It allows the ability to choose to attend class in person or online on any given day — combined with the technology to feel like they are in the classroom in real time, from anywhere. The COVID-19 pandemic helped spur this innovation.
Learn more about the use of HyFlex classrooms.
UC Blue Ash
At UC Blue Ash, the fall 2022 semester begins with newly renovated spaces on campus, an increase in online and hybrid class options and a new program designed to help students who left college early and want to return to finish their degree. A major renovation is underway in Muntz Hall, the college’s flagship building, to provide 30 newly updated classrooms, additional offices for faculty and state-of-the-art studios for the media communications program.
UC Blue Ash | Photo/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Marketing + Brand
“We have a lot of momentum as we begin the new academic year,” says UC Blue Ash College Dean Robin Lightner, PhD.
“We’re excited about the renovations to Muntz Hall that provide bright and contemporary classrooms. We’re continuing to strategically add new academic programs, and we’re offering more online courses than ever before to better meet the needs of our students.”
The Come Back Bearcat program was launched in 2021 to provide dedicated support and scholarships for students who dropped out before earning their degree. More than 30 students have returned to the college through the program and 12 have completed their degree. Many are moving forward with pursuing a more advanced degree.
UC Blue Ash’s dental program continues to thrive as one of the destination programs at the college. It not only prepares students to meet the ongoing demand for dental hygienists throughout the Greater Cincinnati area, the program gives back through its UC Smiles and Community Dental Day programs. UC Smiles has provided free oral health checkups and teeth cleanings for more than 2,500 school children from across the region since 2010.
UC Blue Ash’s program is being highlighted as a model for increasing access to dental care for underserved communities in the Closing America’s Smile Gap promotion being conducted nationally, sponsored by the products Crest and Oral-B.
Learn more about UC Blue Ash’s dental hygiene program.
Read the full Back to School content package.
Featured image at top of UC Clermont/Joseph Fuqua II/UC Marketing + Brand
Become a Bearcat
Whether you’re a first-generation student or from a family of Bearcats, UC is proud to support you at every step along your journey. We want to make sure you succeed — and feel right at home.
Apply today.
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Victorious May Time is constantly moving forward, and significant events remain behind, both for each of us and for all the peoples of Russia. The festive concert “Victory May” was dedicated to the great event, which was held on May 5, 2017 in our educational institution. The concert was opened by L.A. Samokhina, director of the school, congratulating those present on one of the most significant holidays. With special gratitude, she turned to the veterans, who were invited by the students in advance as part of the Veteran Lives Nearby operation to a festive concert. This year the festive concert was attended by Participants of the Great Patriotic War: – Kulesh Zinaida Denisovna – Borzenko Viktor Alekseevich – Sorokina Ekaterina Nikitichna And also a home front worker: – Bezukhova Zinaida Yakovlevna Guests were invited to the celebration. Songs of the war years, accompanied by beautiful videos and slide shows, dance numbers and poetry readings performed by our students, fascinated the audience, as if taking them to that terrible, but significant time in history. The guys approached the veterans with great desire during the concert program with congratulations, gave flowers, said kind words, thanked for the world. This year we included the Immortal Regiment in the program, because this is the story of a generation that went through that incredibly scary time. Participation in the Immortal Regiment implies that everyone who remembers and honors his relative – a veteran of the army and navy, partisan, underground fighter, resistance fighter, home front worker, concentration camp prisoner, siege survivor, war child, comes out with his photograph to take part in to the column of the Immortal Regiment, he pays tribute to this memory. A moment of silence honored the memory of those who died in the war and recently departed veterans. The holiday “with tears in our eyes” caused a storm of emotions and left a deep impression in the hearts of each of us. The right to lay flowers on the Walk of Fame was granted to veterans and guests of the holiday. The concert program was continued on the street with a solemn line, laying flowers on the Walk of Fame by students and launching blue balloons with doves, which symbolizes peace on Earth. In continuation of the concert program, the international action “Victory Waltz” took place, in which our schoolchildren and parents took part. Dancing couples waltzed to the song “Spring of ’45”. The generation of veterans is now leaving, and our main duty is to preserve the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War, not leaving a single dead soldier in oblivion and to pay tribute to the heroic deed of the living. We have paid too high a price for this Victory, and we will not allow anyone today or in the future to forget about it.
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There are such holidays that should not be forgotten, they just need to be remembered, celebrated with dignity and passed on to future generations. Such an event for us is Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, and this year the whole country is celebrating its 72nd anniversary. This date is filled with special meaning. This is a sacred memory of those who died on the battlefields. This is our story, our pain, our hope… 
With congratulations and words of gratitude, the head of the transport department of Gazprom dobycha Orenburg LLC Tishchenko A.S. addressed the veterans, noting the great historical significance of our country’s victory over the German occupiers, and wished the younger generations to honor and respect this important day. 
Eternal memory to the Defenders of the Motherland! Article “Your voice” author Popov. B. Orlovskaya Pravda newspaper, August 15, 1969.
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Popov. B. Orlovskaya Pravda newspaper, August 15, 1969.
Each poet must have his own “center of the universe”. Either he is in a village, lost among birches and poplars, or in a huge city known to the whole world. But one way or another, but it must exist.
And it is bad for those who did not have it or do not have it. We know many examples from the history of literature, when one or another poet, trying to do without him, reaped bitter fruits. He had no homeland, no idea.
The third book of poetry by Ivan Aleksandrov “Ash” was published by the Prnoki publishing house. The “Center of the Universe” of this poet is a truly happy Mtsensk side known to the whole world today.
Here is the famous Turgenev Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, people come here from all over the world. They go and wonder. Ivan Alexandrov never ceases to be surprised. He dedicated hundreds of poems to his native land. These poems are sound, sincere, without falsehood.
Speaking of the poetic sincerity of I. Alexandrov. She makes you believe, follow him along the Mtsensk side, look at the world through the eyes of a poet. And when, for example, we pass to the river Snezhedya, we involuntarily recall the lines:
You are not into Zusha,
you are not into Zusha,
You are not into Zusha, but into me,
And you fall into mine
Soul, Burning, freezing.
Rejoicing at such sonorous and transparent lines, you involuntarily think: it’s great to have your own river, your own blue spring!.
Once in a conversation, Mayakovsky said that every poet should have a main poem, that it should personify a locomotive carrying a poetic composition.
In my opinion, such a poem by Ivan Alexandrov is “Ash”, which gave the name to the collection. It speaks volumes. And, above all, it teaches you to love your native land, to be grateful to those. who did good for you, who saved you in a difficult time:
Forgive me, crimson Vasin,
My indestructible Vasin,
That I cut down a beautiful ash tree
In the fierce winter of war.
The ash tree itself came out to meet me,
The ash tree itself lay down on my shoulders.
I probably survived because
That he saved me from the cold.
I remember it gratefully.
I remember with all my heart and mind.
I still live warmed
by His breath and warmth.
My soul has long been strengthened.
Having appeared at a new frontier,
But a handful of ashes remained,
What is immured in the soul.
Ivan Alexandrov is a true poet. He has his own way, along which he goes for new poems.