Academics must help create affirming educational experiences for trans* students before they show up in our classrooms, writes Z Nicolazzo. More...Calls to abolish the lecture are futile because people's views and methods diverge so widely, arguesJoshua Eyler. More...Sometimes, despite all your carefully laid plans, the results are not what you expect, says Erica A. Gobrogge. More...If left unarticulated, you might stumble into one and somewhat accidentally live into it, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt warns. More...RahK Lash identifies six ways to determine if a job is a good fit. More...Responses to the feminist pedagogy in my classes have been consistently glowing for 20 years. Often it is the young male student who approaches me directly or via email to say, “I have never been in a class like this before” before sharing details of how he has benefited from my approach in developing skills as a thinker and writer, describing but not naming feminist pedagogy. More...Finding your career path after graduate school can be daunting when you come from a family in which your parents did not graduate from college and are not in professional roles. As a child of refugees who was among the first in my family to attend college and also the first to pursue a Ph.D., I often felt that understanding the job-search process and professionalism in the workplace did not come naturally to me. More...Clear communication is supposed to be the business of English departments. If you look hard enough -- and maybe ask around -- you’ll eventually find an English department website that communicates clearly. But you don’t have to look hard for clunkers. Pull up a random English department website and you’ll find sentences that don’t speak to students (or their parents). More...They are often at work in troubled academic units and in how people react -- or fail to react -- to the problems, write Sebastian Wraight, C. K. Gunsalus and Nicholas Burbules. More...Those of us in education who work with high school students and their parents need to do more to help with the financial side of college, argues Terri E. Givens. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
