Christopher Haufler KU Core Innovation Award

The Christopher Haufler KU Core Innovation Award, funded by the Office of the Provost, honors the creative and forward-thinking work of academic departments in developing or transforming outstanding core courses, assessing the KU Core learning outcomes, and disseminating the assessments as models of excellent teaching and learning.

Moving forward, there will be opportunities for innovation grants and awards for new and existing courses. Details coming in Fall 2024.

Past Haufler Award Recipients

Taught by Dr. Kevin McCannon since 2017, SOC 308 demystifies how sociologists produce knowledge. The course teaches underlying skills of data collection, analysis, and collaboration for students via a research project related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a research-intensive course, it introduces primarily non-sociology students and sociology minors to social science research and provides an innovative way to facilitate student learning 

Dr. Sarah Robins developed PHIL 150 in response to her work advising students and her awareness of the lack of Goal 2.2 courses available. Professor Robins set out to design a course focused on oral communication that emphasizes the oral and meta-cognitive skills that are not typically taught in introductory courses. Not only does the course teach students the lifeblood of philosophy – discussion, dialogue, and debate – but it exposes students to the discipline.

Journalism 302 PDF Document by Peter Bobkowski

ALPaCA Grading System PDF Document by Physics and Astronomy

Geology 121 PDF Document by Alison Olcott Marshall

Physics 211 PDF Document by Christopher Fischer