By Steven Mintz. We have early alerts, behavioral nudges and automated reminders as well as intrusive advisers; walk-in math labs; writing, foreign language and science centers; peer tutors; peer-led study groups; online tutorials; supplemental instruction and, of course, faculty office hours. More...
By Steven Mintz. A learning community can be an administrative convenience: a way to register students into a block of classes. Or a learning community can be something more: a cohort of students that shares common intellectual and co-curricular experiences, organized around a common theme, a career goal or a series of big questions. More...
By Steven Mintz. Strategies for escaping grading hell.
Many of us would agree with the following statement: we’d teach for free, but must be paid to grade. More...
By Steven Mintz. When asked which is college’s most important year, few would say the junior year. But the third year is crucial, and doesn’t get the respect it deserves. More...
By John Kroger. Over the coming month, I am speaking at several conferences on the topic of free speech and protest on campus. As I think about the particular topics I will be addressing, I keep coming back to three observations that ground all my advice to campus leaders. More...
By John Kroger. As we enter the 2020s, I want to share my 10 predictions for higher education in the coming decade.
1. 100 Small Colleges Close
Economic pressure will increase on small rural colleges and over 100 will close their doors. To survive today, a small college needs a great location, a large endowment and a powerful brand. Schools with all three of those attributes will thrive. Schools with one or two will have challenges but get by. Schools without any of the three will fail. More...
So, you've worked long and hard on your research, gone through the process of peer review, corrected your proofs, and now you have a published article! (Or book chapter, or publication in some other format. Disciplinary conventions vary.) More...
I’m ashamed to say that I did not know what an en dash or an em dash was until the last few years of my Ph.D. I had used em dashes in my own writing, sure, but I didn’t know what they were called. More...This semester a friend/colleague and I put together a syllabus on solidarity and 20th-century women’s history. We both have equal parts inexperience and enthusiasm for teaching in a college environment and have been thinking a lot about our approach, the goals of our course and the ways we wish to engage students. More...“Gradhacker” has hosted at least two excellent articles on starting up writing habits even when writing seems like the last thing that you want to do. However, with titles like “Nose to the Grindstone” and “Write, Dammit,” it’s easy to see that our common feelings toward writing are frustration and annoyance. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
