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Publications and Presentations

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Smith, A. C., Faculty Centered Assessment of General Education, AAC&U’s Conference on General Education and Assessment: Foundations for Democracy conference, 2018, Philadelphia PA

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Stevens, C, Smith, A. C., Simon, M., Analyzing Faculty Readiness for Teaching Collaboration Skills, AACU General Education and Assessment: Design Thinking for Student Learning February 23-25, 2017 Phoenix, Arizona.

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Smith, A. C., Stevens, C, Simon, M., Implementing Signature Projects through Scholarship in Practice General Education Courses. AACU General Education and Assessment: Design Thinking for Student Learning February 23-25, 2017 Phoenix, Arizona.

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Killion, P and Smith, A. C. , Scholarship in Practice: Bringing Authentic Research Into General Education for Faculty, Students and Research Programs, Conference for Undergraduate Research, 2016, Tampa, Florida

assessment books

La Voy, S.A., Smith, A. C., Roberts, D. Promising Practice: Engaging faculty in designing and implementing an outcomes-based general education program. AAC&U General Education and Assessment conference. 2013. Boston MA.

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Smith, A. C., Roberts, D., Gaines, R. The I‐Series: Evoking Intellect, Inquiry, and Imagination to Engage Students in Real World Challenges. AAC&U General Education and Assessment conference.2013. Boston, MA. (talk)

Publications and Conference Proceedings

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Primiano, Samantha J., Ananya Krishnan, and Thurka Sangaramoorthy. 2020. Plagues, Pathogens, and Pedagogical Decolonization: Reflecting on the Design of a Decolonized Pandemic Syllabus.Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal 3, no. 2: 47–60.

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Thompson, Katerina V., et al. "Faculty learning communities: A professional development model that fosters individual, departmental and institutional impact." Transforming institutions: Undergraduate STEM education for the 21st century (2015): 312-324.

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Briber, Robert M., and Romel D. Gomez PE. "Teaching Engineering in the General Education Program at the University of Maryland." 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

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Benson, Spencer A., Ann C. Smith, and David B. Eubanks. "Developing scholarly teaching at a research university: Using learning communities to build capacity for change." Cases on quality teaching practices in higher education. IGI Global, 2013. 212-227.

books

Lin, Jing, Qian Meng, and Xuan Weng. "The practice and innovation of general education at University of Maryland: a case study." International Journal of Chinese Education 2.1 (2013): 9-30.

Features

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10 Gen Ed Classes to Spice Up Your Freshman Schedule at the University of Maryland

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At U. of Maryland, an Effort to Make Introductory Courses Extraordinary

Chronicle of Higher Ed
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15 of the Coolest Classes at University of Maryland

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Faculty propose 70 general education courses

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