UB’s Graduate School of Education has partnered with GiGi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center of Buffalo to provide UB students with in-classroom experience teaching students with disabilities. UB students were photographed at the center working with clients in July 2021. GSE professor Claire Cameron is working with the program.

CATT News & Updates

Featuring teaching tips and stories highlighting teaching and assessment innovations happening around UB.

Latest News & Updates

  • Generative AI Survey for UB Instructors
    9/12/24
    As the integration of artificial intelligence in education continues to evolve, we are seeking the input of instructors at UB to better understand how these tools are being utilized.
  • Introducing the Instructional Innovation and Transformation Team
    9/3/24
    The Office of Curriculum, Assessment, and Teaching Transformation (CATT) is excited to announce the launch of our Instructional Innovation and Transformation team. This new initiative, led by Dr. Mara Huber, represents a significant step forward in our ongoing commitment to advancing teaching and learning at UB.

Latest Podcast Episode

  • Bridging Classroom and Career with Experiential Projects | Ep. 6
    9/26/24
    Can experiential learning be the key to unlocking students' career potential? This episode, featuring Dr. Mara Huber, the newly appointed Senior Director for Instructional Innovation and Transformation in the University of Buffalo's Office of Curriculum Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT), aims to answer that question with a resounding yes.

Past Updates

  • Remembering Ron Gentile
    5/18/22
    UB recently lost a wonderful member of our longstanding community and, as two people whose lives were greatly impacted by J. Ronald Gentile (Ron), we wanted to take a moment to reflect on this extraordinary mentor.
  • UB’s Educational Design Collaborative Wins Fact2 Award
    4/27/22
    An interview with Jeanne Myers and Steven Sturman. The FACT2 Excellence in Administrative Leadership Award is a system-level honor conferred to acknowledge and recognize consistently noteworthy achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
  • The Middle States Re-Accreditation Self-Study Process Kicks Off
    4/6/22
    This past week, President Tripathi notified the university community that our self-study efforts toward re-accreditation are officially underway. As he indicated, the decennial accreditation process is indeed important for our institution as a whole. While UB comprises numerous unique academic units and programs—many of which have their own internal accreditation standards and obligations—this decennial accreditation process is our chance to come together as a broader institution.
  • What’s in a (Building) Name?
    3/3/22
    As a University at Buffalo graduate student turned academic affairs professional, part of my role is reflecting on my student experience and the shared experiences of my peers as we make consistent efforts to move forward as an ever-changing and growing campus community. I often think back to the long hours spent in various lecture halls around north and south campus: collaborating with classmates, engaging in shared learning with my instructors and eventually leading my own courses in statistics and educational psychology.
  • Encouraging the Use of University Supported Tools and Technologies
    3/2/22
    We live in a time of unprecedented technological innovation and advancement. Our phones auto-update while we are sleeping, our cars get angry and start beeping at us when we are too close to something else, and our regular visits to the doctor’s office seem to yield some new protocol or procedure that they want us to sign up for.
  • How has teaching changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?
    2/16/22
    I think we can all agree that life changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. All areas of one’s life from home, work and school have been affected in some way. As an educator, I wanted to take a look at how teaching has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.