Author Archives: James (Michael) Rifenburg
Partnering with Students to Improve Teaching and Learning
Faith Green is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in writing and publication. Kellie Keeling is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in writing and publication and a…
Join the Write Now Academy
The Write Now Academy is a writing group designed for faculty and staff who are writing academic articles. The Director is Dr. Michael Rifenburg. Apply now for the Write Now…
Write@UNG Series 2016-2017
The Write@UNG workshop series has wrapped up its first year of workshops 2016-2017. This faculty development program stretches across five campuses and enriches scholarly productivity through a focus on research…
Service-Learning and First-Year Writing: A HIP Adventure
Last academic year, I had the opportunity to participate in a Faculty Academy on High-Impact Practices facilitated by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CTLL). One high-impact practice identified…
What it Means to be Connected
October was Connected Educator Month. Started by the Department of Education in 2012, CEM has gone global and in 2013 reached 14 million educators through twitter alone. As a college…
From a Research-Focused R1 to a Teaching-Focused Master’s L
On Wednesday nights at 9 pm ET, twitter lights up with an hour-long chat categorized under the hashtag #FYCchat, with FYC short for first-year composition. Various higher ed stakeholders launch…
Introverts and the teaching of writing
I first read Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking sitting by a pool in Las Vegas. I remember moving along nicely through…