By Joshua Kim. Eleven hours and 2 minutes is the time that it takes to listen to the audiobook version of God Save Texas. Those hours will be amongst the most enjoyable 11 hours you will spend this year. More...
Small Liberal Arts Colleges as Learning Innovation Base Camps
By Joshua Kim. A metaphor that has captured the imagination at my College is that of a “base camp to the world”. I’ve been thinking about this base camp metaphor as it could apply to learning innovation. More...
Catching Up with Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression
By Barbara Fister. Climbing Mount To Be Read, one book at a time. This one is a keeper. More...
Majors Aren’t Getting In the Way
By Barbara Fister. My reasons why it makes no sense at all to scrap majors to prepare students for the “future of work.” More...
Full Circle
By Barbara Fister. Librarians know research can be frustrating for undergraduates, but it's great to see how it turns out. More...
Before We End Majors As We Know Them...
By John Warner. ...there's some other things we should consider.
Before we think the proposal is too radical, readers should know that heavy emphasis is placed on the “as we know them,” part of the equation, rather than the “end them” aspect. More...
Allowing Students to Experience the Fun of Writing
By John Warner. I think I denied students access to the best parts about writing for too long. More...
Advice on Making the Most of Summer "Unstructured" Time
By John Warner. If you are an academic whose semester has recently ended and you are suddenly struggling in dealing with unstructured time, pull up a chair, I’ve got some advice based on my experience of trying to juggle simultaneous (but not necessarily complementary) careers in teaching and writing. More...
No One Cares What You Think, And What You Feel
By John Warner. ...unless you make them.
I can tell I’m missing teaching by my reaction to these tweets from my friend, Paula Patch, senior lecturer in English and College Writing program coordinator at Elon University. More...
A Review of 'What School Could Be'
By John Warner. Where Bill Gates puts his faith (and his money) behind top-down initiatives like the Common Core State Standards and is now on to algorithmic instruction via “personalized learning,”[1] Dintersmith, author of What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration From Teachers Across America is focused at the community, school, and classroom level. More...