Category: Featured
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What Educators Can Learn from Comedians by David Stolin
Engaging Students Through Humor—and a Little Absurdity—Makes Complex Topics Stick (Full Article here, excerpt below) Over the last several years, I’ve been collaborating with comedian Sammy Obeid (known for hosting the Netflix series 100 Humans). Through this collaboration, I have come to believe that any topic, however forbidding or unexciting it may seem, can be explained better…
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Five Techniques for Better Class Discussions by Floyd Cheung
What can we as faculty members do to foster rich scholarly discourse? How can we create “safe enough spaces,” as Michael Roth calls them, for better class discussions? How can we meet students where they are and help them improve their skills? Finding a way is crucial. We know from research that diverse perspectives lead to deeper learning and…
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What is Inclusive Excellence? by Sarah Brown
The term — conceived 20 years ago as a framework for thinking about equity, diversity, belonging, and student success in higher ed — is at risk of becoming an empty phrase. Welcome to Race on Campus. Twenty years ago the phrase “inclusive excellence” was introduced in higher education. Now, colleges use it to describe, among…
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How to Give Our Students the Grace We All Need by Nicole Else-Quest, Viji Sathy, and Kelly Hogan
Six ways that faculty members can better support students without exhausting ourselves in the effort. See full article here. None of us has lived through a global coronavirus pandemic before. Our first- and second-year undergraduates have yet to experience a “normal” semester of college. Getting “back to normal” may not be a realistic or well-reasoned…
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How to teach a good first day of class by James Lang
…So that first class meeting is a big deal. You want to give students a taste of the engaging intellectual journey they will undertake in the coming weeks — and you have great flexibility in how you go about it. Helping you to make that opening session as effective as possible, whatever your discipline,…