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online education

Innovative UCI fellowships help fill virus-created void

Grad students facing financial hardships due to COVID-19 get both funding and a chance to learn new skills

Ariyan Johnson (left) and Cyrian Reed, two new faculty members at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, both teach hip-hop dance.

Hip-hop gets its props

Two new dance faculty members bring cultural and artistic gravitas to the street genre

Image of a male instructor looking at monitors on desks with peoples faces.

A new chapter in teaching

UCI School of Education helps students, instructors navigate changing landscape

Gillian Hayes vice provost of graduate education and dean of UCI’s Graduate Division talking to another woman.

Fellowships keep grad students afloat

With the pandemic limiting summer job opportunities, campus administrators provide a seasonal safety net

Marriage & Family Therapist Associate Dr. Nicole Reilly demonstrates how she sometimes offers telehealth therapy services from her home.

Cultivating calm amid the coronavirus

Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute offers free online classes to relieve stress, anxiety during the pandemic

Avatars summarize students’ progress on research projects in a UCI course that takes place in a fantastical 3D online environment called Anteater Island.

Anteater Island

Anthropology professor teaches class on digital cultures by creating his own virtual community – where COVID-19 isn’t a threat

Richard Arum, dean of the School of Education and UCI’s Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project principal investigator .

Surveys capture UCI students’ COVID-19 concerns, informing university responses

Real-time undergraduate reactions drive academic support, other assistance programs

Mark Warschauer, UCI professor of education, citing one way online learning might leave some students further behind.

The post-pandemic education landscape

UCI professor warns that coronavirus-prompted changes could worsen disparities in academic achievement between low- and high-income students

Continuing Ed’s Evolution

You won’t find a crystal ball or tarot cards in Gary W. Matkin’s office, but if you want to know what’s coming down the pike in higher education, it’s a good place to start. Over several decades of running continuing education programs – first at UC Berkeley, then at UCI – Matkin helped pioneer innovations […]

UCI online master’s program in criminology, law & society rises to No. 2 in national ranking

UCI’s Master of Advanced Study in criminology, law & society has advanced to No. 2 in the country in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2019 ranking of the Best Online Graduate Criminal Justice Programs. A total of 77 schools with online criminal justice or criminology programs were evaluated in five categories: engagement, expert opinion, faculty […]