By John Warner. On the eve of a book publication I answer the question I ask students. More...
3 mars 2019
3 mars 2019
Guest Post: You Know More Than You Think About Teaching Writing
By John Warner. It was gratifying to read Paul Hanstedt’s January 9 guest blog post in IHE. He succinctly summarizes some of the most important tenets of writing instruction. More...
3 mars 2019
Stopping By the Library on a Snowy Evening
By Barbara Fister. As I write this, it’s snowing. It has been snowing a lot lately. It’s pretty, and it keeps covering the dirty stuff up with a fresh, clean blanket, but it’s a nuisance. It’s also expensive. It takes a lot of labor and equipment to clear snow from roads and walkways and clearing snow isn’t something that fits normal working hours. More...
3 mars 2019
Information Literacy’s Third Wave
By Barbara Fister. The daunting complexity of becoming information literate today. More...
3 mars 2019
Developing the Practice of Curiosity
By Barbara Fister. I am not going to write a review of John Warner’s latest book, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, even though it’s full of great ideas for developing yourself as a writer, whether you are a student in a classroom, an instructor at the front of a classroom full of students convinced they aren’t writers after years of being told they are doing it wrong, or if you’re sitting at your keyboard wanting to get better at writing but feeling a sense of dread instead of a sense of possibilities. More...
3 mars 2019
What is Progressive Education?
By John Kroger. I have spent much of my career in higher education, as a law professor and college president, but I am also a trustee of a small independent K-12 school in my hometown of Portland. Our school prides itself on providing “progressive” education, but we struggle at times to define what that means. More...
3 mars 2019
Should a President Teach?
By John Kroger. When, however, I became president of Reed College in 2012, I decided I would be a full time leader and administrator and stay away from the classroom. Though I am a very good teacher, I believed that my real “value added,” in a college full of great teachers, was in financial and strategic direction, not as a part-time professor. More...
3 mars 2019
Developing Your Language Skills in Grad School
Tips on bringing language study, an important component of many graduate programs, into your busy schedule. More...
3 mars 2019
Writing Group Party of One: A Day in the Life of 5 Writers
Actual writing habits of actual graduate students. More...
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