Video: Professor Goes ‘Viral’ With Help From Snoop Dogg
Last month, Professor Benny Ng was looking for material to welcome his new students to Chem 60 at Los Angeles Pierce College. Ng had recently started ACUE’s course in Effective Online Teaching Practices and completed the first module, Welcoming Student to Online Learning. He wanted to create a lighthearted welcome video to assuage his students’ […]
Making a Difference at Mizzou
by: Amy Lannin, PhD, Director, Campus Writing Program & Associate Professor in English Education, Missouri At a large university, it may seem unlikely to see direct results of the teaching that we do. But in the spring and summer of 2018, thanks to work with our first ACUE cohort at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), […]
Snoop Dogg reminds students to read their syllabus
Inclusive Public Speaking: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Communication
by Kristina Ruiz-Mesa I remember the day when my perspective about myself and my communication radically shifted. I was a recently hired administrator in a diversity office at a private, elite institution of higher education in the early 2000s. During a work-related event, I was assisting my supervisor, when a high-level university official came […]
Creatively Teaching Biology
Back to Class: Note-Taking Skills
“Back to Class” means something different during a global pandemic. New face masks, hand sanitizer, laptops, and headphones fill online shopping carts, and thousands of educators nationwide are welcoming their students through a screen instead of in a classroom. Nevertheless, faculty are as dedicated as ever to the success of their students. In a series […]
Video: College of Lake County Faculty Celebrate Teaching Excellence
It didn’t take long to see something special in the faculty cohort that launched ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices at the College of Lake County (CLC). “The level of collaboration, and even vulnerability and transparency, that this group of faculty had with each other just demonstrated to me how much they wanted to learn […]
Opinion: CUNY chancellor’s focus on faculty development
Using Video to Learn New Skills, Engage Students … and Satirize
A few years ago, Andrew Ishak made a big New Year’s resolution. In 2018, he pledged to create 52 videos in an effort to get better at making videos. “I didn’t care how good the videos were. I didn’t care what the reception was, or how many people saw them,” said Ishak, a lecturer at […]
Supporting Students Through Faculty Professional Development: A Conversation With Broward College’s Dr. Marielena DeSanctis
Research published in June 2020 found that Broward College students were more likely to complete and pass their courses, with Black and Pell-eligible students achieving outcomes comparable with their peers, when taught by faculty who completed ACUE’s course in research-based effective teaching practices. In this webinar, Marielena DeSanctis, PhD, college provost and senior vice president […]
