By Laura Tropp. When the faculty at my college voted to add in a general education requirement to incorporate issues of race and ethnicity, I saw it as an opportunity to have my Motherhood class fit into this requirement; I could use this as a chance to make the class not just about motherhood issues but about understanding them within the lenses of race, class, and identity. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. It’s mother’s day as I write this, and I’m thinking about the week ahead in the library. At this time of year the reference desk is where you ask “how do I cite this comment on a YouTube video in Chicago Style?” Earlier we began to think the students thought we were a nerdy form of hotel concierge, there to help them locate books in the stacks. Read more...
By Margaret Andrews. I’ve been a member, leader, and launcher of many teams throughout my professional life and have used teams in the majority of classes I teach. This experience led me to become more interested in what makes some team work, what makes some teams go haywire, how to manage team conflict, and how to bring ‘stuck’ teams back to being productive – so I started to study teams, then teaching what I learned to student teams, and ultimately created a class, Making Teams Work. Read more...
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Support groups can be empowering, but unless appropriately structured, they can result in a downward spiral that leaves everyone with unresolved anger, hopelessness and no clear direction forward, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Read more...
By Maria Shine Stewart. Alas, I found no hits while googling the headline to this article -- not until now. Most of you know that the syllabus is a firm-yet-malleable, stable-yet-energizing learning contract that deans and students alike demand. Read more...
By Wayne Stauffer. The barbs of fictitious food critic Anton Ego in Ratatouille are unfortunately similar to those of the many professors who are too critical of their students. Read more...
By Elizabeth Suárez. How many of us wake up in the morning ready to confront conflict? My guess is not many. Unfortunately, we live in a world where conflict surrounds us on a daily basis. Read more...
By Scott McLemee. The folklore of Indonesia and Thailand tells of a frog who is born under half of a coconut-shell bowl and lives out his life there. In time, he draws the only sensible conclusion: the inside of the shell is the whole universe. Read more...
By Robert Weisbuch. The values that undergird higher education as a guarantor of human dignity and enlightenment are under a special intensity of attack, argues Robert Weisbuch, while we in academe seem preoccupied with the little stuff. Read more...
By Bruce Fleming. The big question in hiring somebody right out of graduate school is not about the person's research but whether he or she can deal with teenagers who have never read serious literature and don’t particularly want to, writes Bruce Fleming. Read more...
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