Five Tips for Getting a Good Start on the Semester (and Maybe Even Enjoying Ourselves a Little)
By Paul Hanstedt My friend Gray Kochhar-Lindgren says there’s no better way to raise the temperature in a room than for one person to tell another person how to teach. I always try to keep this in mind when talking with folks about what we do in the classroom, this thing that has the potential […]
Developing an Evidenced-Based Philosophy of Teaching
By Amanda Kratovil-Mailhiot As a recent graduate of a PhD program, I received very little formal training in teaching. Naively, I entered academia as an assistant professor of nursing believing that, like in my past experiences, on-the-job training would suffice. How hard could it be to teach undergraduate student nurses anyway? What I failed to […]
Who Drives Student Success?
Faculty Spotlight: Norman Eng, Bestselling Author and Teacher Educator
Dr. Norman Eng is an adjunct assistant professor in the childhood education department of the City College of New York (CCNY) and Brooklyn College (CUNY). He teaches child development, a student teaching seminar, and math methodology and is the best-selling author of Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students (2017). Formerly, Norman […]
News Roundup: Evidence-Based Teaching Practices, Your “A” Students
A new study suggests that preparation in evidence-based teaching practices benefits graduate students, and an instructor reminds faculty not to neglect their “A” students. Sign up for The ‘Q’ Newsletter for weekly news and insights. The Graduate Training Trade-Off ‘Myth’ A new study suggests that preparation in evidence-based teaching practices may benefit graduate students’ teaching […]
AASCU 2018: Faculty as the Agents of Change
We frequently talk about student success initiatives as “what” we implement on our campuses to impact student retention and completion and ensure students’ learning leads to meaningful degrees—but what about the “who” behind student success? At the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Academic Affairs Summer Meeting, ACUE-credentialed faculty members Christina Zambrano from Rutgers […]
Why Teaching and Research BOTH Matter
Teaching and Research Excellence: Complementary Sides of the Same Coin
Sitting in our college cafeteria, I hear an administrator espousing that “everyone knows that researchers can’t teach.” Despite the questionable wisdom of not knowing their audience and the fallibility of generalizations, this particular individual was parroting a divide that has dogged universities since their millennium-old inception. In the intervening centuries, the rise of epistemology and […]
AASCU 2018: Opportunities Disguised as Challenges
Who’s best positioned to impact student success? Our faculty. As George L. Mehaffy, AASCU’s VP for academic leadership and change, noted in a recent Chronicle report, there’s a “glaring ‘donut hole’ in many colleges’ plans: what happens in the classroom. We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about that as a key component [when] the […]
News Roundup: Mentoring Students, Primary Research, and Lessons from Psychology
This week, taking lessons from experimental psychology, effectively mentoring students, and bringing primary research into first-year courses. Sign up for The ‘Q’ Newsletter for weekly news and insights. It’s Time to Make a Push Toward More Primary Research in First-Year Composition Although first-year composition courses are common at colleges, Sarah Carter notes that many don’t […]
