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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Diversity and Inclusion
The ROI of Diversity and Inclusion When presenting workshops on diversity and inclusion, I often ask students and faculty to reflect on the question “What’s in it for me?” This…
Finding the Classroom: Conceptualizing Reality in Higher Education
“Publics are asked to accommodate to an objectified ‘reality,’ marked off and demarcated in cost-benefit terms. It is reified, and ‘given’; we are all being required to sublimate our private…
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…
Research-Based Teaching Series – Call for Proposals
Faculty and teaching staff are invited to submit a proposal for doing a presentation in the Research-Based Teaching Series (RBTS) Spring 2017 series. RBTS is co-sponsored by the University of…
Using Book Clubs to Foster Student Engagement
At it’s core, traditional teaching and learning involves students gaining meaning from printed and oral language. Raphael and McMahon (1994) suggested that comprehension is achieved through a partnership of students,…
Finding and Supporting Student Applicants for Nationally Competitive Scholarships
NSF GRFP, Jack Kent Cooke, Udall, NIH, Fulbright, oh my! The world of scholarships is a large one indeed; every time I think I may have a handle on one…
The Benefits of Faculty Writing Groups
Grab your “to do” list. Whether it’s mental, handwritten, or online, the list probably includes grading papers, preparing lessons for the week, and attending committee meetings (among other things). Have…
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…